Jueces 19:28

28 «¡Levántate, vámonos!», le dijo, pero no obtuvo respuesta. Entonces el hombre la puso sobre su asno y partió hacia su casa.

Jueces 19:28 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 19:28

And he said unto her, up, and let us be going
He spoke to her as supposing her asleep, in order to awake her, and prepare for their journey with all the haste they could, lest greater mischief should befall them:

but none answered;
for she was dead; and her death was occasioned, as Josephus ^F23 says, partly through grief at what she had suffered, and partly through shame, not daring to come into the sight of her husband; but chiefly through the injuries done her by the number of persons that had lain with her: so it is reported ^F24 of the Thessalonians, when they took Phocis, many women were destroyed through the abundance of rapes committed upon them. To these Abarbinel adds, the cold of the night, being without her clothes, or anything to cover her:

then the man took her up upon an ass;
and carried off her dead body, without making any remonstrance to the inhabitants, from whom he could not expect that any justice would be done him:

and the man rose up, and got him unto his place;
to his city on one side Mount Ephraim, to which he made as much haste as he could, instead of going to the house of God at Shiloh, as he proposed; for now the circumstances of things were changed with him, and instead of sacrificing and giving praise to God in his house, his business was to seek for justice from the tribes of Israel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8.)
F24 Herodot. Urania, sive, l. 8. c. 33.

Jueces 19:28 In-Context

26 Despuntaba el alba cuando la mujer volvió, y se desplomó a la entrada de la casa donde estaba hospedado su marido. Allí se quedó hasta que amaneció.

27 Cuando por la mañana su marido se levantó y abrió la puerta de la casa, dispuesto a seguir su camino, vio allí a su concubina, tendida a la entrada de la casa y con las manos en el umbral.

28 «¡Levántate, vámonos!», le dijo, pero no obtuvo respuesta. Entonces el hombre la puso sobre su asno y partió hacia su casa.

29 Cuando llegó a su casa, tomó un cuchillo y descuartizó a su concubina en doce pedazos, después de lo cual distribuyó los pedazos por todas las regiones de Israel.

30 Todo el que veía esto decía: «Nunca se ha visto, ni se ha hecho semejante cosa, desde el día que los israelitas salieron de la tierra de Egipto. ¡Piensen en esto! ¡Considérenlo y dígannos qué hacer!»