Judges 19:16

The Message

Cross References

Proverbs 13:11

Easy come, easy go, but steady diligence pays off.

Proverbs 14:23

Hard work always pays off; mere talk puts no bread on the table.

Proverbs 24:27

First plant your fields; then build your barn.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Hard and honest work earns a good night’s sleep, Whether supper is beans or steak. But a rich man’s belly gives him insomnia.

Ephesians 4:28

Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Don’t you remember the rule we had when we lived with you? “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” And now we’re getting reports that a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings are taking advantage of you. This must not be tolerated. We command them to get to work immediately—no excuses, no arguments—and earn their own keep. Friends, don’t slack off in doing your duty.

Judges 19:1

It was an era when there was no king in Israel. A Levite, living as a stranger in the backwoods hill country of Ephraim, got himself a concubine, a woman from Bethlehem in Judah. But she quarreled with him and left, returning to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there four months. Then her husband decided to go after her and try to win her back. He had a servant and a pair of donkeys with him. When he arrived at her father’s house, the girl’s father saw him, welcomed him, and made him feel at home. His father-in-law, the girl’s father, pressed him to stay. He stayed with him three days; they feasted and drank and slept.

Judges 19:14

So they kept going. As they pressed on, the sun finally left them in the vicinity of Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. They left the road there to spend the night at Gibeah.