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Judges 19 Introduction
英文原文
This history has no connection whatever with the preceding. The note of time Judges 20:28 shows that the date of it is in the lifetime of the first generation of settlers in Canaan.
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Judges 19:1
一个妾——见边注。这个名称并不含有任何道德上的贬责。妾正如正式的妻子一样是那人的妻，只是她没有同等的权利。见 Judges 19:3-4。
英文原文
A concubine - See the margin. The name does not imply any moral reproach. A concubine was as much the man's wife as the woman so called, though she had not the same rights. See Judges 19:3-4.
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Judges 19:2
行了淫——也许只是指她逃离丈夫、离弃了他，因为她乃是回到父家去了。
英文原文
Played the whore against him - Perhaps only meaning that she ran away from him, and left him, for she returned to her father's house.
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Judges 19:9
这是当时风俗的一幅完美图画。这位父亲款待得格外殷勤，大概是为了确保女儿在丈夫手中得着善待。这些细节的记述，是为解释他们的行程何以拖到那么晚——那正是随后可怕惨祸的直接原因。
英文原文
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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Judges 19:12
外人的城——这显明甚至在那么早的日子，耶布斯人已将犹大和便雅悯两个支派完全排斥在外。
英文原文
City of a stranger - This shows how completely, even in these early days, the Jebusite population had excluded both the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
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Judges 19:14
基比亚，属于便雅悯——见 Joshua 18:24 注。
英文原文
Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin - See Joshua 18:24 note.
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Judges 19:15
街上——大概是城门内的广场或空地，那里开庭审案、进行交易，是首脑人物和外人聚集之处。
英文原文
A street - Probably the square or place within the gates, where courts were held, bargains made, and where the chief men and strangers congregated.
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Judges 19:16
也是以法莲山地的人——即属于那利未人的本乡。这唯一施予款待的人，自己竟也是基比亚的寄居者和外人。
英文原文
Which was also of Mount Ephraim - i. e., of the country of the Levite. This single giver of hospitality was himself a stranger and sojourner at Gibeah.
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Judges 19:18
耶和华的殿——大概在示罗（边注参考）。这利未人大概是在会幕中事奉的人之一。他有两匹驴和一个仆人，可见家境宽裕，且自有家宅。
英文原文
The house of the Lord - Probably at Shiloh (marginal references). The Levite was probably one of those who ministered at the tabernacle. His two donkeys and servant show him to have been in good circumstances, and he had a home of his own.
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Judges 19:23
这人进了我的家——他诉诸款待客旅的神圣权利，正如罗得当年所为 Genesis 19:8。两件事都沉痛地暴露出古代社会中妇女地位的低微；而把妇女从这地位提拔上来，正是基督教的荣耀之一。
英文原文
This man is come into mine house - He appeals to the sacred rights of hospitality, just as Lot did Genesis 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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Judges 19:29
一把刀——应作“那”刀。那是家中单件的家什，不像我们用餐的刀，而是用于宰杀牲畜并将其切成块以便食用的 Genesis 22:6、Genesis 22:10; Proverbs 30:14。
连同她的骨头……——应作“切成她的骨头”，或“连骨头一起，切成十二块”。“块”与“骨头”是同义的（比较 Ezekiel 24:4-5）。那出于伤痛与义愤的严酷烈怒，驱使他行此孤注一掷之举，为要唤起同胞为他复仇——其中有种真正可畏的东西。比较 1 Samuel 11:7。
英文原文
A knife - Rather, "the" "knife". The single household implement used, not like our knives at our meals, but for slaughtering and cutting up the animals into joints for eating Genesis 22:6, Genesis 22:10; Proverbs 30:14.
Together with her bones ... - Rather, "into her bones", or "bone by bone, into twelve pieces". The "pieces" are synonymous with the "bones" (compare Ezekiel 24:4-5). There is something truly terrible in the stern ferocity of grief and indignation which dictated this desperate effort to arouse his countrymen to avenge his wrong. Compare 1 Samuel 11:7.
这段历史与前面的记载毫无关联。Judges 20:28 的时间标注表明，这段历史的年代正处于定居迦南的第一代人的有生之年。