Judges 19:18

“And he said unto him, we are passing from Bethlehemjudah, etc.] He answers to his last question first, for this was the place from whence they came: towards the side of Mount Ephraim: thither they were going, which is an answer to the first question: and then adds, which is more than what was requested, from thence am I; that is, he was an inhabitant of a city on one side of Mount Ephraim, but what that city was, he says not, nor is it elsewhere said: and I went to Bethlehemjudah; on what account he does not declare, but the above narrative clearly shows for what reason he went thither: but I am now going to the house of the Lord; that is, the tabernacle in Shiloh, there he proposed to go…”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“House of the Lord - Which was in Shiloh. Thither he went, either because he lived there, for that was in the tribe of Ephraim; or, rather, because he would there offer prayers and praises, and sacrifices to God, for his mercy in reconciling him and his wife. Judges 19:20”

“I am now: The LXX read, εις τον οικον μου εγω πορευομαι· "I am going to my own house;" which is probably the true reading, as we find ( Jdg 19:29) that he really went home; yet he might have gone previously to Shiloh, or to "the house of the Lord," because that was also in mount Ephraim. the house: Jdg 18:31, Jdg 20:18; Jos 18:1; Sa1 1:3, Sa1 1:7 receiveth: Heb. gathereth, Jdg 19:5; Psa 26:9; Joh 15:6 Judges 19:19”