Retained him. — One motive of the father-in-law would doubtless be to practise the full rights of hospitality, which are in the East so specially sacred; but he probably desired further to win back the Levite’s heart to his erring daughter.
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Judges 19:4
4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.