Judges 19:14

Judges 19:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
• New International Version (NIV)So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,
• New King James Version (NKJV)And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

Context of Judges 19:14

12The Levite told him, “We’ll never go into a city of foreigners. They’re not Israelites. We’ll go on to Gibeah.” 13He told his servant, “Let’s go someplace else. We’ll spend the night either at Gibeah or Ramah.” So they went on. It was sunset by the time they arrived at Gibeah. (Gibeah belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.) 15They went to spend the night there. The Levite entered Gibeah and sat down in the city square, because no one offered to take them home for the night. 16That evening an old man came into the city from his work in the fields. He was from the mountain region of Ephraim but lived in Gibeah. The other people who lived there were from the tribe of Benjamin.

Judges 19:14 word by word

וַיַּעַבְר֖וּ וַיֵּלֵ֑כוּ וַתָּבֹ֤א לָהֶם֙ הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ אֵ֥צֶל הַגִּבְעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְבִנְיָמִֽן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And they passed onעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• and went their wayיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• and the sunשֶׁ֫מֶשׁshemesh · sunH8121
• went downבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• byאֵ֫צֶל'êtsel · besideH681
• Gibeahגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · GibeahH1390
• to Benjaminבִּנְיָמִיןbinyâmîyn · BenjaminH1144

Commentaries on Judges 19:14

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin - See Joshua 18:24 note.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30This second epilogue (see study note on Judges 17:1–21:25) shifts the focus from individuals to entire tribes. It begins with the outrage in the Benjamite town of Gibeah (Judges 19), which led to a civil war (Judges 20) and the near destruction of Benjamin. It then moves to the attempt to save the tribe from disappearing (Judges 21). The book ends with the familiar refrain: In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-151. it came to pass in those days--The painfully interesting episode that follows, together with the intestine commotion the report of it produced throughout the country, belongs to the same early period of anarchy and prevailing disorder. a certain Levite ... took to him a concubine--The priests under the Mosaic law enjoyed the privilege of marrying as well as other classes of the people. It was no disreputable connection this Levite had formed; for a…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Judges 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary