Who took him a concubine Hebrew, a wife, a concubine, that is, such a concubine as was also his wife: called a concubine only because she was not endowed. Perhaps he had nothing to endow her with, being himself only a sojourner. “Women of this sort differed little from the wife, except in some outward ceremonies and stipulations, but agreed with her in all the true essentials of marriage, and gave themselves up to the husband, (for so he is called in the next chapter, Judges 19:4,) with faith plighted, and with affection.” Dr. Dodd, who refers to Sterne's Sermons, vol. 3. Ser. 3., and Selden de Jure, Nat. lib. 5. c. 7.
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Judges 19:1
1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubinea out of Bethlehemjudah.