Judg 19:12-15, 20:4-6, 1Sa 15:34, 2Sa 21:6, Isa 10:29, Hos 9:9, 10:9 | TSK | STEP | Gibeah.Gibeah, a city of Benjamin, and the birth-place of Saul, was situated near Rama and Gibeon, according to Josephus, thirty furlongs north from Jerusalem; or, according to Jerome, about two leagues.

Judges 19:12-15

Gibeah.Gibeah, a city of Benjamin, and the birth-place of Saul, was situated near Rama and Gibeon, according to Josephus, thirty furlongs north from Jerusalem; or, according to Jerome, about two leagues.

Gibeah.

Jos 18:25,26,28; 1Sa 10:26; Isa 10:29; Ho 5:8

no man.There was probably no inn, or house of public entertainment in this place; and therefore they could not have a lodging unless furnished by mere hospitality. But these Benjamites seem to have added to their other vices, avarice and inhospitality, like the inhabitants of Akoura in mount Lebanon, mentioned by Burckhardt.

18; Ge 18:2-8; 19:2,3; Mt 25:35,43; Heb 13:2

Judges 20:4-6

the Levite. Heb. the man the Levite. I came.

And the men.

beset.

and my concubine.

forced. Heb. humbled.

De 22:24; Eze 22:10,11

cut her.

19:29

folly in Israel.

10; 19:23; Ge 34:7; Jos 7:15; 2Sa 13:12,13

1 Samuel 15:34

Gibeah.

11:4

2 Samuel 21:6

Let seven.As God accepted the expiation here demanded, we must suppose that both the enquiry of David, and the answer of the Gibeonites, were directed by some open or secret intimation from him.

hang.

17:23; 18:10; Ge 40:19,22; Nu 25:4,5; De 21:22; Jos 8:29; 10:26

Ezr 6:11; Es 9:10,13,14; Mt 27:5

in.

1Sa 10:26; 11:4

whom the Lord did choose. or, the chosen of the Lord.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:1,24; Ac 13:21