10 And the man hath not been willing to lodge all night, and he riseth, and goeth, and cometh in till over-against Jebus (It 'is' Jerusalem), and with him 'are' a couple of asses saddled; and his concubine 'is' with him. 11 They 'are' near Jebus, and the day hath gone greatly down, and the young man saith unto his lord, 'Come, I pray thee, and we turn aside unto this city of the Jebusite, and lodge in it.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 19:10-11
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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.