Judges 19:19

19 "Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and 1the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything *."

Judges 19:19 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 19:19

Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses
Straw to litter them with, and provender to feed them with, which he had brought with him on them:

and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thine handmaid;
meaning himself and his concubine; there were enough for them both, which were packed up, and carried by the asses:

and for the young man which is with thy servants;
the supplement, which is, seems quite needless, and even impertinent; for as yet the young man, by whom he means his servant, was not as yet in company with the servants of the old man; but the sense is, that there was not only provisions with him for himself, and his wife, and also for his servant, but even enough for the servants of the old man, whether maid or manservants: there is no want of anything; and therefore none needed to be shy of taking them in, since they should not be burdensome to any upon any account; all they wanted was a lodging.

Judges 19:19 In-Context

17 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going, and where do you come from?"
18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house.
19 "Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything ."
20 The old man said, "Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square."
21 So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank.

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