The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
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The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
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And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
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And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them: 'Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this wanton deed.
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Passages linked to Judges 19:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 34:7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.
- Judges 20:6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
- 2 Samuel 13:12 She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.
- Genesis 19:6-7 Lot went out to them through the door, and shut the door after himself. He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- Deuteronomy 22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Joshua 7:15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 19:23 And the man, the master of the…
Jdg 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Ver. 23. Nay, my brethren.] Brethren they were by race and place: but these were unworthy of this compellation, as having put off the man, and become dogs, and worse, {Deu 23:18 2Ti 3:8} scalded {a} in their own grease. {Rom 1:27}
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{a} εξεκαυθησαν.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This man is come into mine house, and therefore…
This man is come into mine house, and therefore I am obliged to protect him by the laws of hospitality. Compare Gen 19:17,8.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the man, the master of the house, went…
And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them,.... Opened the door, and went out to converse with them, and talked them after this manner:
and said unto them, nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; it is plain he understood them in such sense, that they meant not bare knowledge of the man, as who he was, &c. but to commit wickedness the most abominable; so great, that it cannot be well said how great it is; and to dissuade from it, he uses the most tender language, and the most earnest entreaties:
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seeing this man is come into my house, do not this folly; he argues from the law of hospitality, which ought not to be infringed; a man being obliged to protect a stranger under his roof; and from the nature of the crime, which was folly, stupidity, and what was abominable to the last degree.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Into my house - And therefore I am obliged…
Into my house - And therefore I am obliged to protect him by the laws of hospitality.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain This man is come into mine house - He…
This man is come into mine house - He appeals to the sacred rights of hospitality, just as Lot did Gen 19:8. Both cases betray painfully the low place in the social scale occupied by woman in the old world, from which it is one of the glories of Christianity to have raised her.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. Nay, my brethren … wickedly] Similarly Gen_19:7.
23. Nay, my brethren … wickedly] Similarly Gen_19:7.
do not … folly] This translation is only a makeshift. The Hebr. nebâlâh means much more than folly; it implies moral insensibility, repudiation of the claims of morality and religion, particularly, in this phrase, an outrage against the laws of nature, Jdg_20:6; Jdg_20:10, Gen_34:7, Deu_22:21, 2Sa_13:12. In Jos_7:15 the phrase is used of Achan’s iniquity.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) Do not this folly.—It is from no deficiency…
(23) Do not this folly.—It is from no deficiency of moral indignation that the word “folly” (nebalah) is used. Sometimes when crime is too dark and deadly for ordinary reproach the feelings are more deeply expressed by using a milder word, which is instantly corrected and intensified by the hearer himself. (See Gen_34:7; Deu_22:21.) Thus Virgil merely gives the epithet “unpraised” (“illaudati Busiridis aras”) to the cannibal tyrant, which serves even better than a stronger word. (Comp. “Shall I praise you for these things? I praise you not” 1Co_11:17-22.) (See the author’s Brief Greek Syntax, p. 199.) This figure of speech takes the various form of antiphasis, litotes, meiosis, &c.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He pleads the sanctity of hospitality.
He pleads the sanctity of hospitality.
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