22Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: …
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: …
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Here is, I. The great wickedness of the men of Gibeah. One could not imagine that ever it should enter into the heart of men that had the use of human reason, of Israelites that had the benefit of divine revelation, to be so very wicked. “Lord, what is man!” said David, “what a mean creature is he!” “Lord, what is man,” may we say upon the reading of this story, “what a vile creature is he, when h…
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