SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:25
Mas aquellos hombres no le quisieron oír; por lo que tomando aquel hombre su concubina, se la sacó fuera; y ellos la conocieron, y abusaron de ella toda la noche hasta la mañana, y la dejaron cuando apuntaba el alba.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 19:25
Verse 25. So the man took his concubine] The word qzjy yachazek, which we here translate simply took, signifies rather to take or seize by violence. The woman would not go out to them; but her graceless husband forced her to go, in order that he might save his own body. He could have but little love for her, and this was the cause of their separation before. The men of Gibeah who wished to abuse the body of the Levite; the Levite who wished to save his body at the expense of the modesty, reputation, and life of his wife; and the old man who wished to save his guest at the expense of the violation of his daughter; are all characters that humanity and modesty wish to be buried in everlasting oblivion.
When the day began to spring] Their turpitude could not bear the full light of the day; and they dismissed the poor woman when the day began to break.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. But the men would not hearken to him , etc.] Especially with respect to his daughter, whom they knew very well, and had no affection for, perhaps was not handsome enough for them: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them ; that is, not the old man, but the Levite took his own wife or concubine, and put her forth to them, very probably with her consent, to try if that would pacify them, she being a fair and beautiful woman, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel suggest; and Josephus intimates, that some young men of the city had seen her in the street, and were captivated with her beauty, and came on purpose for her, and would not be satisfied unless she was delivered to them; and upon which her husband, perceiving this, laid hold on her by main strength, as the word signifies, and brought her out whether she would or not, as Kimchi notes: and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning ; had carnal knowledge of her, and used her in a most shocking manner one after another, all the night long, until the morning appeared: and when the day began to spring; at break of day, when the light dawned: they let her go ; their works being works of darkness, and would not bear the light.
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
ולא 3808 אבו 14 האנשׁים 582 לשׁמע 8085 לו ויחזק 2388 האישׁ 376 בפילגשׁו 6370 ויצא 3318 אליהם 413 החוץ 2351 וידעו 3045 אותה 853 ויתעללו 5953 בה כל 3605 הלילה 3915 עד 5704 הבקר 1242 וישׁלחוה 7971 בעלות 5927 השׁחר׃ 7837
