And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
Ver. 2. And his concubine played the whore against.] Which she could not have done had she not been a kind of secondary wife, according to the corrupt custom of those times. Josephus saith a that she was a fair woman, and not affecting her husband as she ought, but lingering after other lovers, great strife grew between them, whereupon she went away to her parents within four months after marriage. Varium et mutable semper femina.
And went away from him.] An odious woman she was, which is one of those four things that disquiet the earth. Pro 30:20
Unto her father's house.] Who, as a fond father, received her, whenas he should rather have rated or punished her, and sent her home again.
a Antiq, lib. iii. cap. 2.