John Gill's Exposition on Judges 21:25

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In those days there was no king in Israel, etc.] No supreme magistrate, Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all related in the five last chapters of this book were done between the death of Joshua and the time of the judges: every man did that which was right in his own eyes; there being none to restrain him from it, or punish him for it; and this accounts for the many evil things related, as the idolatry of Micah and the Danites, the base usage of the Levite’s concubine, the extreme rigour and severity with which the Israelites treated their brethren the Benjaminites, the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead, and the rape of the daughters of Shiloh. FOOTNOTES ft1 -- T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 14. 2. ft2 -- De Mensur. & Ponder. c. 13. ft3 -- Apud Hottinger. Smegma, p. 522. ft4 -- De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H. ft5 -- Travels, p. 142. Ed. 5th. ft6 -- Valerius Maximus, l. 9. c. 2. Aelian, Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 9. Cicero de Officiis, l. 3. c. 11. ft7 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 2. ft8 -- Such dogs are called trapezhev kunev, in Homer. Iliad. 23. ver. 173. & Odyss. 17. ver. 227. ft9 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 2. ft10 -- Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 2.) ft11 -- “Est mihi sitque precor”, etc. l. 9. ep. 16. ft12 -- Justin. e Trogo, l. 36. c. 3. ft13 -- Geograph. l. 16. p. 525. ft14 -- Praeferat Herodis. Palmetis Pinguibus----De Arte Poet. ver. 184. ft15 -- Juchasin, fol. 68. 1. ft16 -- Travels, p. 118. Ed. 5. ft17 -- µyrmçh “custodes”, Pagninus, Montanus; “observatores”, Vatablus, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ft18 -- Antiqu. l. 14. c. 1. sect. 4. ft19 -- Geograph. l. 5. c. 17. ft20 -- De loc. Heb. fol. 92. M. ft21 -- Journey from Aleppo, p. 54. ft22 -- dy dbkty “et aggravata est manus”, V. L. Paginus Montanus. ft23 -- So Maimonides, Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 15. & par. 2. c. 6. ft24 -- The Rabbins in Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 42. ft25 -- Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. ft26 -- Ad Autolyc. l. 3. p. 138, 139. Vid. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 23. ft27 -- Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. 1. prope finem. ft28 -- De Dea Syria. ft29 -- Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 1. p. 38. ft30 -- Suidas in voce astarth. ft31 -- In Octavio, p. 6. ft32 -- Apolog. c. 24. ft33 -- Vid. Owen. Theologoumen, l. 3. c. 4. p. 192. ft34 -- lb. c. 11. p. 244. ft35 -- Seder Olam Rabba, c. 12. p. 34. ft36 -- wlyph al “non Cadere faciebant”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius. ft37 -- hçqh µkrdm “de via sua dura”, Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Drusius. ft38 -- “Lucus in urbe fuit media”, etc. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 1. ft39 -- Animadv. ad Claudian. de raptu Proserp. l. 1. v. 205. ft40 -- De mor. German. c. 9. Vid. Plin. l. 12. 1. ft41 -- In Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. col. 295. ft42 -- “Est nemus et piceis”, etc. Ep. 12. v. 67. Vid. Metamorph. l. 11. Fab. 9. v. 560. ft43 -- In Virgil. Aeneid. l. 1. col. 481. & in l. 3. col. 721. ft44 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. & 3. ft45 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 3. sect. 2. ft46 -- T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 105. I. ft47 -- Scripture Chronology, p. 507. ft48 -- Onomastic. p. 154, 155. ft49 -- Geograph. l. 5. c. 18. ft50 -- Annal. Vet. Test. p. 42. ft51 -- Anual. Vet. Test. p. 42. ft52 -- Evangel. Praepar. l. 1O. c. 14. p. 502. ft53 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 1. ft54 -- Works, vol. 1. p. 46. ft55 -- wnymy dy rja “obturatum manu dextera sua”, Montanus; “habens manum dexterum obturatum”, Munsterus; “erat clausa manu dextera”, Tigurine version; “clausum manu dextera”, Dr…

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