It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 30. Egypt, that is for the space of eighty years. Salien.—Indeed the annals of all past ages could hardly furnish an instance of such barbarous lust.—Done. In every city, people gathered together to consult how the crime was to be expiated; ( Bible.) and all agreed to assemble before the Lord. Calmet.—Grabe’s Septuagint observes, that the Levite “gave order to the men, to whom he sent, saying, these things shall you speak to every Israelite. If such a word (or thing) has come to pass, from the day of the coming up of the sons of Israel out of Egypt, till the present day? Take ye advice concerning it, and speak.” Bible.