12But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into a city of foreigners, who are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
13He said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."
14So they passed on and continued their journey. The sun set as they came near Gibeah, which belongs to the tribe of Benjamin.
15They turned aside there to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. When they went in, they sat in the town square, but no one took them into their house to spend the night.
16In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was staying temporarily in Gibeah, though the people of the place were Benjaminites.