Today’s Reading
The Book of Judges Chapter 19 in it’s entirety
Study notes are the closing comments on this chapter and are provided by Matthew Henry.
We have here the three great rules by which those that sit in council ought to go in every arduous affair. (1.) Let every man retire into himself, and weigh the matter impartially and fully in his own thoughts, and seriously and calmly consider it, without prejudice on either side, before he speaks upon it. (2.) Let them freely talk it over, and every man take advice of his friend, know his opinion and his reasons, and weigh them. (3.) Then let every man speak his mind, and give his vote according to his conscience. In the multitude of such counselors there is safety.
Note also that in the above chapter it reflects the passages of Lot and the city of Sodom. However in the this case there are no angels that are involved. The victim in this passage has no authority to call down the fires of Heaven to punish the evil doers. Hence his appeal to the tribes of Israel for justice.
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