SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:22
¶ Y cuando estaban gozosos, he aquí, que los hombres de aquella ciudad, que eran hombres hijos de Belial, cercaron la casa, y batieron las puertas, diciendo al hombre viejo señor de la casa: Saca fuera el hombre que ha entrado en tu casa, para que lo conozcamos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 19:22
Verse 22. Sons of Belial] Profligate fellows. See the notes on Deut. xiii. 13. That we may know him.] See Gen. xix. 5. These were genuine sodomites as to their practice; sons of Belial, rascals and miscreants of the deepest dye; worse than brutes, being a compound of beast and devil inseparably blended.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. Now as they were making their hearts merry , etc.] With a glass of wine after supper, and conversing together in a cheerful manner about their country and friends: behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial ; very wicked, lawless, ungovernable, worthless, and unprofitable creatures, men under the influence of Satan, and their own lusts: beset the house round about : that none might escape out of it, especially the Levite, his wife and servant: and beat at the door ; to get entrance, either by those within opening to them, or by breaking it open: and spake to the master of the house, the old man ; who, upon this noise and clamour made, came to the door, to inquire what was the meaning of all this: to whom they replied, saying, bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him ; not what manner of person he was, of what country and profession, whither he was going, and what business he had here; but that they might have carnal knowledge of him in an unnatural way, or commit that sin with him which is commonly called sodomy; and the men of Sodom expressed their lust by the same word, ( Genesis 19:5).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The wickedness of the men of Gibeah.
--The three remaining chapters of this book contain a very sad histor of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, in Benjamin. The righteous Lor permits sinners to execute just vengeance on one another, and if the scene here described is horrible, what will the discoveries of the da of judgment be! Let each of us consider how to escape from the wrath to come, how to mortify the sins of our own hearts, to resist Satan' temptations, and to avoid the pollutions there are in the world __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
המה 1992 מיטיבים 3190 את 853 לבם 3820 והנה 2009 אנשׁי 376 העיר 5892 אנשׁי 376 בני 1121 בליעל 1100 נסבו 5437 את 853 הבית 1004 מתדפקים 1849 על 5921 הדלת 1817 ויאמרו 559 אל 413 האישׁ 376 בעל 1167 הבית 1004 הזקן 2205 לאמר 559 הוצא 3318 את 853 האישׁ 376 אשׁר 834 בא 935 אל 413 ביתך 1004 ונדענו׃ 3045
