SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:30
Y todo el que lo veía, decía: Jamás se ha hecho ni visto tal cosa, desde el tiempo que los hijos de Israel subieron de la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy. Considerad esto, dad consejo, y hablad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 19:30
Verse 30. There was no such deed done nor seen] They were all struck with the enormity of the crime; and considered it a sovereign disgrace to all the tribes of Israel. Consider of it] Literally, Put it to yourselves; take counsel upon it; and speak. This was the prelude to the council held, and the subsequent operations, which are mentioned in the following chapter.
I HAVE passed over the abominable transactions of this chapter as lightly as I could, and shall make no apology to the learned or unlearned reader for leaving some things untranslated.
What a blessing are wholesome laws, and a vigorous and attentive magistracy! These wretched people had no form of government, and every one did what was right in his own eyes: their own eye (corrupt inclination) was the measure and rule of their conduct; and how bad a rule, the abuse and murder of the Levite's wife testify. Reader, bless God for a civil government.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. And it was so, that all that saw it , etc.] The dismembered pieces of the dead body, and were made acquainted with the cause of it; for so Josephus says, he gave the messengers a command to declare what was the cause of her death: said, there was no such deed done nor seen, from the day that the children of Israel came out of Egypt, unto this day ; meaning not so much the cutting in pieces the dead body, and sending it to different parts; though that was awful and shocking, as the complicated wickedness committed at Gibeah, which was the cause of it, to which reference is had, ( Hosea 9:9) this is an observation of the writer of this book, Samuel; but what follows are the words either of those the Levite sent, who were bid to deliver them to those to whom the pieces were sent, or else of the persons present at the time of the delivery of the pieces to them, or whom they got together to disclose the matter to: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds ; well weigh and think of the matter within yourselves, consult with one another what is proper to be done, and give your opinion freely without any reserve.
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
והיה 1961 כל 3605 הראה 7200 ואמר 559 לא 3808 נהיתה 1961 ולא 3808 נראתה 7200 כזאת 2063 למיום 3117 עלות 5927 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 מארץ 776 מצרים 4714 עד 5704 היום 3117 הזה 2088 שׂימו 7760 לכם עליה 5921 עצו 5779 ודברו׃ 1696
