Teks -- Judges 21:19 (NET)

21:19 However, there is an annual festival to the Lord in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel (east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”

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Wesley: Jdg 21:19 - A feast

Probably it was the feast of tabernacles, which they celebrated with more than ordinary joy. And that feast was the only season, at which the Jewish virgins were allowed to dance. But even this was not mixed dancing. No men danced with these daughters of Shiloh. Nor did the married women so forget their gravity, as to join with them. However their dancing thus in public, made them an easy prey: whence Bishop Hall observes, "The ambushes of evil spirits carry away many souls from dancing to a fearful desolation."

JFB: Jdg 21:19 - on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem

The exact site of the place was described evidently for the direction of the Benjamites.

Clarke: Jdg 21:19 - There is a feast of the Lord

There is a feast of the Lord - What this feast was is not known: it might be either the passover, pentecost, or the feast of tabernacles, or indeed some other peculiar to this place. All the above feasts were celebrated at that time of the year when the vines were in full leaf; therefore the Benjamites might easily conceal themselves in the vineyards; and the circumstances will answer to any of those feasts

Clarke: Jdg 21:19 - On the east side of the highway, etc.

On the east side of the highway, etc. - I can see no reason for this minute description, unless it intimates that this feast was to be held this year in rather a different place to that which was usual: and, as the Benjamites had been shut up in their strong hold in Rimmon, they might not have heard of this alteration; and it was necessary, in such a case, to give them the most circumstantial information, that they might succeed in their enterprise without being discovered.

TSK: Jdg 21:19 - a feast // yearly // on the east side // of the highway // Lebonah

a feast : Exo 23:14-16; Lev 23:2, Lev 23:4, Lev 23:6, Lev 23:10, Lev 23:34; Num 10:10, Num 28:16, Num 28:26, Num 29:12; Deu 16:1, Deu 16:10, Deu 16:13; Psa 81:3; Joh 5:1, Joh 7:2

yearly : Heb. from year to year

on the east side : or, toward the sun rising

of the highway : or, on

Lebonah : Maundrell supposes, that either Khan Leban, which is situated on the eastern side of a ""delicious vale,""four leagues south from Shechem, and two leagues north from Bethel, or the village of Leban, which is on the opposite side, occupies the site of the ancient Lebonah. It is eight hours, or about 24 miles, from Jerusalem, according to Dr. Richardson.

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Poole: Jdg 21:19 - Yearly // Which is on the north side of Beth-el // Shiloh

Yearly on the three solemn feasts, in which they used some honest and holy recreations; among which dancing was one, Exo 15:20 1Sa 18:6 2Sa 6:14 ; and probably it was the feast of tabernacles, which they did celebrate with more than ordinary joy, Deu 16:13-15 .

Which is on the north side of Beth-el Heb. which is on the north of Beth-el . Which doth not relate to

Shiloh which was so known a place, that it was frivolous to describe it by such circumstances, even by places much less known than itself; but to the

feast which as to that part or exercise of the feast here especially concerned and mentioned, to wit, the dancing of the virgins, was not celebrated in Shiloh, but in a neighboring place more convenient for that purpose.

Haydock: Jdg 21:19 - Counsel // Solemnity // Lebona

Counsel, among themselves. (Haydock) ---

Solemnity. It is not known which is meant, as all the three great festivals occurred during the time that the vines were covered with leaves; (ver. 20) or this feast might be one peculiar to the city of Silo, in memory of the ark being transported thither. Vatable thinks that the description here given, regards the place where the dance was to be, as all must have known the situation of the city. Silo rather lies to the west than to the east, (Calmet) if we draw a line from Bethel to Sichem, but the road might be circuitous. (Haydock) ---

St. Jerome places Silo ten miles west of Sichem. ---

Lebona may be Chan Lebna, four miles to the south of it. (Calmet)

Gill: Jdg 21:19 - Then they said // behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly // which is on the north side of Bethel // on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem // and on the south of Lebonah

Then they said,.... Some of the elders that sat in council debating this matter, and considering of ways and means to assist their brethren the Benjaminites, and preserve their tribe from being lost:

behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly; where the tabernacle then was, and before which the males of Israel were obliged to appear three times of the year; and this was one of them, as is clear by its being called a feast of the Lord; and therefore cannot design any civil festival or fair kept for trade and commerce. Some have thought of the feast of the passover, but it is most likely to be the feast of tabernacles, as Abarbinel takes it to be; which in Jewish writings is emphatically called "the feast"; and the time of year when that was kept was a time of great rejoicing, on account of the fruits of the earth being gathered in, and the reading of the law and especially at the tithe of drawing of water at this feast; insomuch that it is said ^e that he who never saw the rejoicing at drawing of water never saw rejoicing in his life, which was attended with piping, and dancing, and singing. It is pretty strange what Kimchi notes, that this may be either one of the above feasts, or the day of atonement, at which, he says, the daughters of Israel used to go and dance in the vineyards, according to the words of the Rabbins; when though that is reckoned among the feasts, Lev 23:1 it was properly a fast, as it is called, Act 27:9 and all tokens of festivity and joy were forbidden on it; and where these words of their Rabbins are to be met with, he says not: in a place

which is on the north side of Bethel; we rightly supply "in a place": for the intention is not to describe the situation of Shiloh, which was well known, but a place not far from it, where at this festival the daughters of Shiloh used to dance:

on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem; this place lay to the east of a public road, that led from Bethel to Shechem:

and on the south of Lebonah; which Mr. Maundrell ^f takes to be a place now called Kane Leban, which stands on the east side of a delightful vale, having a village of the same name standing opposite to it on the other side of the vale; one of these places, either that Kane or the village, is supposed to be the Lebonah mentioned Jdg 21:19 to which both the name and situation seem to agree.