Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 19:22

22 ¶ Now as they were making their hearts merry , behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial , beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him .

i. e. Refreshing themselves with the Provisions set before them.

Wicked and Licentious men; see Deut. 13. 13.

An ambiguous expression; whereby they pretended onely a desire to know and see what person he had brought among them, and yet carry on their Wicked design of knowing him Carnally. Compare Gen. 19. 5. where the same phrase is used in that sense upon a like occasion. But though they name onely the man; yet it is plain from the following relation, that their Design was principally upon the Woman, and therefore under the name of the man, they comprehend those that belong to him.

Marginal references: Hos. 99 [illegible: 1 word] 10. 9.