When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
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When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him: 'Behold, now the day draweth toward evening; tarry, I pray you, all night; behold, the day groweth to an end; lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.'
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Passages linked to Judges 19:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 27:1 Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
- James 4:13-14 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
- Luke 24:29 They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, is weak.
Hebrew, is weak.
Or, the day lodgeth.
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To wit, to the town or city where he dwelt.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 19:9 And when the man rose up to…
Jdg 19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Ver. 9. And when the man rose up to depart.] As home is homely; neither is there any perfume so sweet to a traveller as his own smoke.
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The day draweth toward evening.] Heb., Is weak and remiss.
The day groweth to an end.] Mansio diei, the sun is hastening to his lodging; for so it seemeth to do when it setteth.
Lodge here, that thine heart may be merry.] This importunity was an incivility. Homer’s rule in this case is very good:
“Cρη ξεινον παρεοντα φιλειν, εθελοντα δε πεμπειν.”
Show your stranger all courtesy while he is willing to stay, but send him away timeously, when desirous to be gone.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The day groweth to an end, Heb. it is…
The day groweth to an end, Heb. it is the encamping time of the day, i.e. the evening, when armies having marched in the day, begin to pitch their camp; or, when the sun that makes the day begins to encamp himself and go toward rest; so it is a poetical expression taken from hence, that the sun, when he sets, seems to vulgar eyes to go to rest.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when the man rose up to depart, he…
And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine, and his servant,.... Rose up from table, having comfortably refreshed themselves:
his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, behold, now the day draweth towards evening; or is "remiss", or "weak" (n); that is, the heat, light, and strength of the sun abated, and became weaker and more remiss, as it does the more it declines, and is nearer setting:
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I pray you tarry all night; suggesting, it was a very improper time to set out in on a journey:
behold, the day groweth to an end; or "behold, it is the encampment of the day" (o), when the day or sun seems to be pitching its tent, and going to rest; or it being the time when an army on the march stops and pitches their tents, in order to continue all night; or when men go to their tents and habitations, and lie down and take their rest:
lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and let us have another pleasant evening together, which cannot be had in an inn upon the road; you cannot be comfortable there, as here, and therefore be persuaded to stay, since it is not possible to get home tonight:
and tomorrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home; to thy city, as the Targum; signifying, that he should not insist upon their staying any longer, and then they might set out on their journey as soon as they pleased.
(n) "debilitata est", Pagninus, Vatablus; "remissus est", Junius & Tremellius. (o) "castrametatio diei", Drusius.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. The day groweth to an end] חנות…
Verse 9. The day groweth to an end] חנות היום chanoth haiyom, "the day is about to pitch its tent;" that is, it was near the time in which travellers ordinarily pitched their tents, to take up their lodging for the night.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain This is a perfect picture of the manners of…
This is a perfect picture of the manners of the time. It is probable that the father showed more than usual hospitality, in order to ensure the kind treatment of his daughter by her husband. These particulars are given to account for their journey running so far into the evening, which was the immediate cause of the horrible catastrophe which followed.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Depart. Hebrew and Septuagint add, "early," before the sun…
Depart. Hebrew and Septuagint add, "early," before the sun was up to render travelling incommodious. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the day draweth toward evening--Hebrew, "the pitching time of…
the day draweth toward evening--Hebrew, "the pitching time of day." Travellers who set out at daybreak usually halt about the middle of the afternoon the first day, to enjoy rest and refreshment. It was, then, too late a time to commence a journey. But duty, perhaps, obliged the Levite to indulge no further delay.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Behold, now the day draweth toward evening ……
9. Behold, now the day draweth toward evening … behold, the day groweth to an end] lit. the day sinks to become evening … the camping-time (?) of the day. The doubling of phrases points to a conflation of sources, while the phrases themselves are too high-flown for a prose narrative. Some mss. of the LXX read Behold, the day is declined (Jdg_19:8) toward evening, lodge thou here to-day also. Probably this is nearer to the original.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) The day draweth toward evening.—Literally, is weak, or…
(9) The day draweth toward evening.—Literally, is weak, or has slackened to evening. The father had purposely detained the Levite till late, in the hopes of inducing him to spend one more night under his roof. The forms of Eastern politeness would render it difficult for the Levite to resist these importunities.
The day groweth to an end.—Literally, it is the bending or declining of the day, not, as in the margin of our version, “the pitching time of the day.”
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Home.—Literally, to thy tent, which may be something more than a mere reminiscence of the earlier stage of the national existence. (Comp. “To your tents, O Israel,” 1Ki_12:16, &c.) The Levite is conscious that if the father has been too pressing he has himself been too self-indulgent, and too fond of good living. “His experience is that of all weak and vacillating people: first, unnecessary delay, and then overstrained hurry.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Draweth toward evening. The Hebrew phrase, which is uncommon,…
Draweth toward evening. The Hebrew phrase, which is uncommon, is, The day is slackening to become evening, i.e. the heat and the light of the day are becoming slack and weak, and evening is coming on. The day groweth to an end. Another unusual phrase; literally, Behold the declining of the day, or, as some render it, the encamping of the day, as if the sun after his day"s journey was now pitching his tent for the night. Go home. Literally, to thy tent, as in Jud_1:20:8. So the phrase, To your tents, O Israel, means, Go home. (see 1Ki_12:16, etc.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 now the day is advancing toward evening
now the day is advancing toward evening
"the day is almost over" or "it is almost evening"
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