Judges 19:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.

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Cross-References

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Ezekiel 16:28
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Leviticus 21:9
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Topics

Adultery Commandments Copulation Crime Fornication Harlot (prostitute)Harlotry Lasciviousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

The domestic affairs of this Levite would not have been related thus largely but to make way for the following story of the injuries done him, in which the whole nation interested themselves. Bishop Hall’s first remark upon this story is, That there is no complain of a public ordered state but there is a Levite at one end of it, either as an agent or as a patient. In Micah’s idolatry a Levite was…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. his concubine ... went away from him unto her father’s house--The cause of the separation assigned in our version rendered it unlawful for her husband to take her back (De 24:4); and according to the uniform style of sentiment and practice in the East, she would have been put to death, had she gone to her father’s family. Other versions concur with Josephus, in representing the reason for the f…