Teks -- Judges 19:18 (NET)

19:18 The Levite said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 19:18 - House of the Lord

Which was in Shiloh. Thither he went, either because he lived there, for that was in the tribe of Ephraim; or, rather, because he would there offer prayers and praises, and sacrifices to God, for his mercy in reconciling him and his wife.

TSK: Jdg 19:18 - I am now // the house // receiveth

I am now : The LXX read, εις τον οικον μου εγω πορευομαι· ""I am going to my own house;""which is probably the true reading, as we find (Jdg 19:29) that he really went home; yet he might have gone previously to Shiloh, or to ""the house of the Lord,""because that was also in mount Ephraim.

the house : Jdg 18:31, Jdg 20:18; Jos 18:1; 1Sa 1:3, 1Sa 1:7

receiveth : Heb. gathereth, Jdg 19:5; Psa 26:9; Joh 15:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 19:18 - The house of the Lord

The house of the Lord was in Shiloh, Jos 18:1 22:12 Thither he went, either because he lived there, for that in the tribe of Ephraim; or rather, because he would there offer prayers, and praises, and sacrifices unto God, for his mercy in reconciling him and his wife together, and for his blessing upon them again, and to make atonement for his wife.

Haydock: Jdg 19:18 - Of God

Of God. Septuagint, "to my house I return in haste; and no one brings me into his house." The tabernacle was fixed at Silo in Ephraim. (Haydock) ---

Chaldean, "the house of the sanctuary of God." (Menochius) (Ver. 1.)

Gill: Jdg 19:18 - And he said unto him, we are passing from Bethlehemjudah // towards the side of Mount Ephraim // from thence am I // and I went to Bethlehemjudah // but I am now going to the house of the Lord // and there is no man that receiveth me to house

And he said unto him, we are passing from Bethlehemjudah,.... He answers to his last question first, for this was the place from whence they came:

towards the side of Mount Ephraim: thither they were going, which is an answer to the first question: and then adds, which is more than what was requested:

from thence am I; that is, he was an inhabitant of a city on one side of Mount Ephraim, but what that city was, he says not, nor is it elsewhere said:

and I went to Bethlehemjudah; on what account he does not declare, but the above narrative clearly shows for what reason he went thither:

but I am now going to the house of the Lord; that is, the tabernacle in Shiloh, there he proposed to go first to offer sacrifice for the success of his journey, and for the reconciliation of his wife to him, and to pray to God for happiness in his family yet to come, and where some think his habitation was; but rather it was at some distance, not far from Mount Ephraim, and on the side of it, whither he should return when he had performed those acts of religion and devotion, which he judged were his duty:

and there is no man that receiveth me to house: that had invited him to his house to take a lodging there, as was common to do to travellers, as the instances of Abraham, Lot, Job, and others, show. It was a law with the Lucani (a people in Italy), that if a stranger came at sun setting, and was desirous of coming under the roof of anyone, if such an one did not receive him, he was to be fined, and suffer the punishment of inhospitality ^t.