SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:5
Y levantándose contra mí los señores de Gabaa, cercaron sobre mí la casa de noche, con idea de matarme, y oprimieron mi concubina de tal manera, que ella fue muerta.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And the men of Gibeah rose against me , etc.] Not all of them, but some that dwelt in that city; he forbears giving them the character they justly deserved, sons of Belial. These came in a tumultuous and violent manner, and beset the house round about upon me by night ; that he might not make his escape, resolving if possible to get him into their hands, and do with him according to their will: and thought to have slain me ; their first intention was to commit the unnatural sin on him, and, if he resisted, to slay him; but this he modestly conceals, as being a sin not to be named in an assembly of saints; and besides he might say this, because he himself chose rather to be slain than to submit to their lust, which he knew must be the case upon his refusal and resistance; and even if he had yielded, being overpowered, this would have been the consequence, that he should have been abused even unto death, as his wife was: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead ; or “afflicted”, or “humbled” her; which is a modest expression for carnal knowledge of her, and which they had to such excess that she died through it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated. --The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, an their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they forme their resolves with too much haste and self-confidence. The eterna ruin of souls will be worse, and more fearful, than these desolation of a tribe __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויקמו 6965 עלי 5921 בעלי 1167 הגבעה 1390 ויסבו 5437 עלי 5921 את 853 הבית 1004 לילה 3915 אותי 853 דמו 1819 להרג 2026 ואת 853 פילגשׁי 6370 ענו 6031 ותמת׃ 4191
