Jueces 19:12

12 Y su señor le respondió: No iremos a ninguna ciudad de extranjeros, que no sea de los hijos de Israel; antes pasaremos hasta Gabaa. Y dijo a su criado

Jueces 19:12 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 19:12

And his master said unto him, we will not turn aside hither
into the city of a stranger
A city of the children of the Gentiles, as the Targum, as the Jebusites were, being one of the seven nations of the land of Canaan, who were to be dispossessed and destroyed; and which, one would think, he would not have so called, had it been inhabited, though but in part, by the children of Judah and Benjamin: by this it appears, that this Levite was a good man, and conscientious, and shunned all appearance of evil, and the company of wicked men, as became his character and profession: and it is added,

that is not of the children of Israel;
which further confirms the above conjecture, that this city was not as yet at all in the hands of the Israelites; or if it had been, was retaken, and now in the hands of the Jebusites:

we will pass over to Gibeah;
which was in the tribe of Benjamin, and inhabited by men of that tribe, and so more agreeable to this Levite, though it proved fatal to him; this was, as Josephus says ^F18 thirty furlongs, or near four miles from Jebus or Jerusalem; and though it was near sun setting, he chose rather to proceed on to this place, than to lodge at Jebus, and the rather it may be, as it was a Levitical city, ( Joshua 21:17 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 1.

Jueces 19:12 In-Context

10 Mas el varón no quiso quedarse allí la noche, sino que se levantó y partió, y llegó hasta enfrente de Jebús, que es Jerusalén, con su par de asnos aparejados, y con su concubina

11 Y estando ya junto a Jebús, el día había declinado mucho; y dijo el criado a su señor: Ven ahora, y vámonos a esta ciudad de los jebuseos, para que tengamos en ella la noche

12 Y su señor le respondió: No iremos a ninguna ciudad de extranjeros, que no sea de los hijos de Israel; antes pasaremos hasta Gabaa. Y dijo a su criado

13 Ven, lleguemos a uno de esos dos lugares, para tener la noche en Gabaa, o en Ramá

14 Pasando, pues, caminaron, y se les puso el sol junto a Gabaa, que era de Benjamín