Judges 19:6
in Judges 19So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: and the damsel’s father said unto the man, Be pleased, I pray thee, to tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.
KJV
And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel’s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
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This verse in Judges 19
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread
on Judges 19:5-7
Five verses go on eating and drinking and on a father pressing his guest, which slows the telling to the hour. The words recur, “Refresh your heart” at verses 5 and 8. Hospitality is what the delay is made of, and hospitality is what Gibeah withholds at verse 15.
This site's exposition
the two of them ate and drank together
The meal is shared by the two men, and the father presses for one more night. Matthew Henry sets this pressing beside Luke 24:28 and 29, where Jesus is urged to stay with his friends and agrees. Henry calls the later delay unkind in its outcome.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
On the next day the Levite arose at daybreak but was detained by his father-in-law, that he might not so quickly lose the pleasure of his company. Again on the next and the third day the maiden's father did not allow his son-in-law to start [his journey], until their joy and mutual regard was complete. But on the seventh day, when it was already drawing to a close, after a pleasant meal, having urged the approach of the coming night, so as to make him think he ought to sleep among friends rather than strangers, he was unable to keep him, and so let him go together with his daughter.
Although the man wanted to depart, he kept him a fourth day, offering him excuses of civility, devising delays. In his desire to add a fifth day as well, he found new reasons for delaying them, while the husband, unwilling to thwart the father's affection of its desire to keep his daughter, though he was at last promised an opportunity for setting forth, postponed it to midday so that they would start out well fortified with food. Even after dinner, the father wished to find some delay, saying that evening was now approaching.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And they sat down,....
Our Saviour, after his resurrection, was prevailed upon to stay with his friends longer than he at first intimated to be his purpose, Luke xxiv. 28, 29 . [2.] He forces him to stay till the afternoon of the fifth day, and this, as it proved, was unkind,
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּשְׁב֗וּ | vaiyeshevu | and they sat down | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| וַיֹּאכְל֧וּ | vaiyokhelu | and they ate | H398 → | 810 times |
| שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם | sheneihem | [the] two of them | H8147 → | 768 times |
| יַחְדָּ֖ו | yachdav | together | H3162 → | |
| וַיִּשְׁתּ֑וּ | vaiyishtu | and they drank | H8354 → | 217 times |
| וַיֹּ֜אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲבִ֤י | ʾavi | [the] father of | H1 → | 1212 times |
| הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙ | hanaarah | the young woman | H5291 → | 63 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הָאִ֔ישׁ | haish | the man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| הֽוֹאֶל־ | hoel- | be willing | H2974 → | 19 times |
| נָ֥א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| וְלִ֖ין | velin | and spend [the] night | H3885 → | 84 times |
| וְיִטַ֥ב | veyitav | so it may be good | H3190 → | 117 times |
| לִבֶּֽךָ׃ | libekha | heart your | H3820 → | 595 times |
וַיֵּשְׁב֗וּand they sat down
vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times
וַיֹּאכְל֧וּand they ate
vaiyokheluH398 →810 times
שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם[the] two of them
sheneihemH8147 →768 times
יַחְדָּ֖וtogether
yachdavH3162 →
וַיִּשְׁתּ֑וּand they drank
vaiyishtuH8354 →217 times
וַיֹּ֜אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
אֲבִ֤י[the] father of
ʾaviH1 →1212 times
הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙the young woman
hanaarahH5291 →63 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הָאִ֔ישׁthe man
haishH376 →1663 times
הֽוֹאֶל־be willing
hoel-H2974 →19 times
נָ֥אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
וְלִ֖יןand spend [the] night
velinH3885 →84 times
וְיִטַ֥בso it may be good
veyitavH3190 →117 times
לִבֶּֽךָ׃heart your
libekhaH3820 →595 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ruth 3:7After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and…
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid.…
Reached by 4 separate paths from here.
- Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
- Judges 19:9
When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See,…
- 2 Samuel 13:28
Through
Esther 1:10On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
it leads to
- Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Judges 16:25
And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
- Esther 7:9
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.”…
- Ecclesiastes 7:2–4
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- Proverbs 20:1
Through
1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 13:23
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- 2 Samuel 13:23
Where this verse is studied
About Judges
This page draws on Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy 3.19.111-12; Ambrose of Milan, LETTER 33; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.