And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah .
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel,.... The same is observed in Jdg 17:6 and refers to the same times, the times before the judges, between them and the death of…
Barnes' Notes
A concubine - See the margin. The name does not imply any moral reproach. A concubine was as much the man’s wife as the woman so called, though she had not the same rights. See Jdg 19:3-4.
The domestic affairs of this Levite would not have been related thus largely but to make way for the following story of the injuries done him, in which the whole nation interested themselves. Bishop…
Cambridge Bible
The outrage at Gibeah
1 .when there was no king See on Jdg 17:6.
on the farther side or recesses, probably meaning the northern parts of E.; cf. the recesses of Lebanon2Ki 19:23, also Isa 14:13; Jer…
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