12 But his master said to him, “We will not turn off to a foreigner’s city, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.
13 Come,” he said to his servant, “let us make for some other place and spend the night in either Gibeah or Ramah.”
14 So they continued on their way until the sun set on them when they were opposite Gibeah of Benjamin.
15 There they turned off to enter Gibeah for the night. The man went in and sat down in the town square, but no one took them inside to spend the night.
16 In the evening, however, an old man came from his work in the field; he was from the mountain region of Ephraim, though he was living in Gibeah where the local people were Benjaminites.
17 When he noticed the traveler in the town square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
18 He said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem of Judah far up into the mountain region of Ephraim, where I am from. I have been to Bethlehem of Judah, and now I am going home; but no one has taken me into his house.