Judges 19:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Yet there is both straw, &c. The Levite here acquaints the man that he had with him all things necessary both for himself and his concubine, his servant and his asses; so that he should not burden any man who should receive him, as he only wanted some place to lodge in. For thy handmaid Or, as we should speak now, for the woman that is with me. The young man that is with thy servants Or along with us. It was a form of expression in those days to entitle themselves the servants of those they spoke to with any degree of respect.

Judges 19:19

19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.