Shìshījì 18:19

19 Tāmen huídá shuō , búyào zuò shēng , yòng shǒu wú kǒu , gēn wǒmen qù ba . wǒmen bì yǐ nǐ wéi fù , wèi jìsī . nǐ zuò yī jiā de jìsī hǎo ne . háishì zuò Yǐsèliè yī zú yī zhīpaì de jìsī hǎo ne .

Shìshījì 18:19 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 18:19

And they said unto him, hold thy peace
Be silent, make no disturbance, be quiet and easy:

lay thy hand upon thy mouth;
as a token of silence; so the Egyptians used to paint Harpocrates, the god of silence, with his fingers pressing his lips:

and go with us;
for they wanted him as well as his gods, not knowing well how to make use of them without him:

and be to us a father and a priest;
to direct them, instruct them, perform acts of devotion for them, and ask counsel on their account; it seems as if it was common in those days to call a priest a father, see ( Judges 17:10 )

is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that
thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
suggesting, that it must be much more honourable for him, and more to his advantage, to officiate as a priest to a body of people, that might be called a tribe, or to a family consisting of various houses, than in the house of a private person; this they left him to consider and judge of.

Shìshījì 18:19 In-Context

17 Kuītàn dì de wǔ gèrén zǒu jìn qù , jiāng diāokè de xiàng , Yǐfúdé , jiā zhōng de shénxiàng , bìng zhù chéng de xiàng , dōu ná le qù . jìsī hé daì bīngqì de liù bǎi rén , yītóng zhàn zaì ménkǒu .

18 Nà wǔ gèrén jìnrù Mǐjiā de zhùzhái , ná chū diāokè de xiàng , Yǐfúdé , jiā zhōng de shénxiàng , bìng zhù chéng de xiàng , jìsī jiù wèn tāmen shuō , nǐmen zuò shénme ne .

19 Tāmen huídá shuō , búyào zuò shēng , yòng shǒu wú kǒu , gēn wǒmen qù ba . wǒmen bì yǐ nǐ wéi fù , wèi jìsī . nǐ zuò yī jiā de jìsī hǎo ne . háishì zuò Yǐsèliè yī zú yī zhīpaì de jìsī hǎo ne .

20 Jìsī xīnli xǐyuè , biàn/pián ná zhe Yǐfúdé hé jiā zhōng de shénxiàng , bìng diāokè de xiàng , jìnrù tāmen zhōngjiān .

21 Tāmen jiù zhuǎn shēn líkāi nàli , qīzi , érnǚ , shēngchù , cáiwù dōu zaì qiántou .