Judges 19:6 Meaning and Explanation
“And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.”
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What Does Judges 19:6 Mean?
The two men sit down and eat and drink together, and the father presses again: be content, stay the night, let your heart be merry. The fourth-day departure has dissolved into another evening of fellowship. The host's persistence is generous, but it is also keeping the journey from beginning, and the reader begins to sense how each delay narrows the window of safety.
Let your heart be merry is the language of feasting and ease, and there is a place for such gladness; Scripture does not despise the joys of the table. Yet the same merriment that warms this house will be named again in a darker hour, when the men are making their hearts merry just before disaster strikes. The repetition is a warning written into the very words. Comfort and rest are gifts, but they are not meant to lull us asleep to the hour we are in or the road we are called to walk.
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What does Judges 19:6 mean?
They eat and drink together, and the father invites the Levite to stay yet another night.