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Judges 19 Bible study: Consider it
In Bethlehem the Levite was pressed to stay; in Gibeah, a town of Israel, no one took him in but an old man from Ephraim (19:15-16). What followed at the door is told in many of Genesis 19's words (Genesis 19:4-8), now in a city of Benjamin. And the chapter ends with a charge, not a verdict: "Consider it, take counsel, and speak" (19:30).
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“It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.””
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“In Judges 19, the old man who took the travellers in at Gibeah was from the hill country of Ephraim.”
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What's really going on
In those days, again
The chapter opens with the book's refrain: "In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah" (19:1). You have just met a Levite with the same two places. In chapter 17, "a young man out of Bethlehem Judah" who "was a Levite" went "to the hill country of Ephraim" (17:7-8). There the Levite came from Bethlehem to Ephraim; here the Levite of Ephraim takes a concubine from Bethlehem. In Hebrew both are living with the same verb (tap lived), a man who stays where he isn't from (17:7, 19:1). The refrain comes back at the book's end, with the words it added in 17:6: "Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes" (21:25).
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- Somewhere to stay
- The words of Genesis 19
- "Consider it, take counsel, and speak"
- "The days of Gibeah"
- Where the LORD is named
- 9 questions as you read
- 9 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
לוּןlunsay LOON
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "lodge, pass the night". The same letters make a second verb, murmur, which Brown-Driver-Briggs lists separately; here it is the first. It is the chapter's word: Judges uses it thirteen times, and eleven are in this chapter, from "he stayed with him three days" (19:4) to the old man's "don’t sleep in the street" (19:20). The WEB gives it as stay, stayed, lodge and sleep. The father presses the Levite to stay (19:4-9), the Levite won't stay in Jebus (19:10-12), and in Gibeah "there was no one who took them into his house to stay" (19:15). Genesis 19 uses it twice in one verse: Lot invites the angels to "stay all night", and they answer, "we will stay in the street all night" (Genesis 19:2).
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Judges 19 Bible study questions
- 1In Gibeah the Levite "sat down in the street of the city", and no one took them in except an old man who wasn't from there himself (19:15-16). Who around you might be sitting in the street, and what would taking them in look like?
- 2The chapter ends, "Consider it, take counsel, and speak" (19:30). When something wrong happens among people who belong to God, what makes it hard to stop, talk it through together, and say something? What helps?
- 3The chapter opens "when there was no king in Israel" (19:1), and the book ends, "Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes" (21:25). Where are you most tempted to do what seems right in your own eyes?
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