Shìshījì 19:3

3 Tā zhàngfu qǐlai , daì zhe yī gè púrén , liǎng pì lü qù jiàn tā , yòng hǎo huà quàn tā huí lái . nǚzi jiù yǐn zhàngfu jìnrù fù jiā . tā fù jiàn le nà rén , biàn huān huānxǐ xǐ dì yíngjiē .

Shìshījì 19:3 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 19:3

And her husband arose
From the place where he lived:

and went after her;
to Bethlehemjudah, where her father lived:

to speak comfortably to her
"or to her heart" ^F12; having heard perhaps that she repented of her sin, or if it was only upon a quarrel between them, his anger might cool and subside, and therefore sought for a reconciliation; and which was the more commendable in him, as he did not put her away, but she departed from him: and

to bring her again;
to his own city, and to his own house and bed, as before:

having his servant with him, and a couple of asses;
one of them for her to ride upon, and the other to carry provisions on:

and she brought him into her father's house;
it seems she met with him before he came thither, in the fields, or in the street; and by this it appears that she was glad to see him, and received him in a loving manner, and introduced him into her father's house, so that things looked well, and promised success:

and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him;
having a good opinion of him, and perhaps understood, even by his daughter's story, that she was most in fault, and therefore was well pleased to see him come after her; though he ought before this time to have sent her home, or sought for a reconciliation of her to her husband.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (hbl le) "ad cor", Pagninus.

Shìshījì 19:3 In-Context

1 Dāng Yǐsèliè zhōng méiyǒu wáng de shíhou , yǒu zhù Yǐfǎlián shān dì nàbiān de yī gè Lìwèi rén , qǔ le yī gè Yóudà Bólìhéng de nǚzi wèi qiè .

2 Qiè xíng yín líkāi zhàngfu , huí Yóudà de Bólìhéng , dào le fù jiā , zaì nàli zhù le sì gè yuè .

3 Tā zhàngfu qǐlai , daì zhe yī gè púrén , liǎng pì lü qù jiàn tā , yòng hǎo huà quàn tā huí lái . nǚzi jiù yǐn zhàngfu jìnrù fù jiā . tā fù jiàn le nà rén , biàn huān huānxǐ xǐ dì yíngjiē .

4 Nà rén de yuèfù , jiù shì nǚzi de fùqin , jiāng nà rén liú xià zhù le sān tiān . yúshì èr rén yītóng chī hē , zhù xiù .

5 Dào dì sì tiān , Lìwèi rén qīngzǎo qǐlai yào zǒu , nǚzi de fùqin duì nǚxù shuō , qǐng nǐ chī diǎn fàn , jiā tiān xīn lì , ránhòu kĕyǐ xíng lù .