14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
14 So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
14 So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,
14 So they kept going. As they pressed on, the sun finally left them in the vicinity of Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
14 And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
14 So they went on. The sun was setting as they came to Gibeah, a town in the land of Benjamin,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 19:14
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The wickedness of the men of Gibeah.
The three remaining chapters of this book contain a very sad history of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, in Benjamin. The righteous Lord permits sinners to execute just vengeance on one another, and if the scene here described is horrible, what will the discoveries of the day of judgment be! Let each of us consider how to escape from the wrath to come, how to mortify the sins of our own hearts, to resist Satan's temptations, and to avoid the pollutions there are in the world.