John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. And her husband arose , etc.] From the place where he lived: and went after her ; to Bethlehemjudah, where her father lived: to speak comfortably to her “or to her heart” f393 ; having heard perhaps that she repented of her sin, or if it was only upon a quarrel between them, his anger might cool and subside, and therefore sought for a reconciliation; and which was the more commendable in him, as he did not put her away, but she departed from him: and to bring her again ; to his own city, and to his own house and bed, as before: having his servant with him, and a couple of asses ; one of them for her to ride upon, and the other to carry provisions on: and she brought him into her father’s house ; it seems she met with him before he came thither, in the fields, or in the street; and by this it appears that she was glad to see him, and received him in a loving manner, and introduced him into her father’s house, so that things looked well, and promised success: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him ; having a good opinion of him, and perhaps understood, even by his daughter’s story, that she was most in fault, and therefore was well pleased to see him come after her; though he ought before this time to have sent her home, or sought for a reconciliation of her to her husband.
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 ויקם6965 אישׁה376 וילך1980 אחריה310 לדבר1696 על5921 לבה3820 להשׁיבו7725 ונערו5288 עמו5973 וצמד6776 חמרים2543 ותביאהו935 בית1004 אביה1 ויראהו7200 אבי1 הנערה5291 וישׂמח8055 לקראתו׃7125
