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28 And he said to her, “Get up and let us be going.” But athere was no answer. So the man lifted her onto the donkey; and the man got up and went to his place.  
29 When he entered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and adivided her into twelve pieces,1 limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.  
30 And so it was that all who saw it said, “No such deed has been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, aconfer, and speak up!” 
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Adam Clarke
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Judges 19:30

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.




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