SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:18
Y él respondió: Pasamos de Belén de Judá a los lados del monte de Efraín, de donde yo soy; y partí hasta Belén de Judá; y voy a la Casa del SEÑOR, y no hay quien me reciba en casa,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And he said unto him, we are passing from Bethlehemjudah , etc.] He answers to his last question first, for this was the place from whence they came: towards the side of Mount Ephraim : thither they were going, which is an answer to the first question: and then adds, which is more than what was requested, from thence am I ; that is, he was an inhabitant of a city on one side of Mount Ephraim, but what that city was, he says not, nor is it elsewhere said: and I went to Bethlehemjudah ; on what account he does not declare, but the above narrative clearly shows for what reason he went thither: but I am now going to the house of the Lord ; that is, the tabernacle in Shiloh, there he proposed to go first to offer sacrifice for the success of his journey, and for the reconciliation of his wife to him, and to pray to God for happiness in his family yet to come, and where some think his habitation was; but rather it was at some distance, not far from Mount Ephraim, and on the side of it, whither he should return when he had performed those acts of religion and devotion, which he judged were his duty: and there is no man that receiveth me to house : that had invited him to his house to take a lodging there, as was common to do to travellers, as the instances of Abraham, Lot, Job, and others, show. It was a law with the Lucani (a people in Italy), that if a stranger came at sun setting, and was desirous of coming under the roof of anyone, if such an one did not receive him, he was to be fined, and suffer the punishment of inhospitality f401 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
The wickedness of the men of Gibeah. --The three remaining chapters of this book contain a very sad histor of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, in Benjamin. The righteous Lor permits sinners to execute just vengeance on one another, and if the scene here described is horrible, what will the discoveries of the da of judgment be! Let each of us consider how to escape from the wrath to come, how to mortify the sins of our own hearts, to resist Satan' temptations, and to avoid the pollutions there are in the world __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אליו 413 עברים 5674 אנחנו 587 מבית לחם 1035 יהודה 3063 עד 5704 ירכתי 3411 הר 2022 אפרים 669 משׁם 8033 אנכי 595 ואלך 1980 עד 5704 בית לחם 1035 יהודה 3063 ואת 853 בית 1004 יהוה 3068 אני 589 הלך 1980 ואין 369 אישׁ 376 מאסף 622 אותי 853 הביתה׃ 1004
