14. So they went past Jebus and continued on their way. It was sunset when they came to Gibeah in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.
15. They turned off the road to go and spend the night there. They went into the city and sat down in the square, but no one offered to take them home for the night.
16. While they were there, an old man came by at the end of a day's work in the fields. He was originally from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was now living in Gibeah. (The other people there were from the tribe of Benjamin.)
17. The old man noticed the traveller in the city square and asked him, “Where do you come from? Where are you going?”
18. The Levite answered, “We have been to Bethlehem in Judah, and now we are on our way home deep in the hill country of Ephraim. No one will put us up for the night,
19. even though we have fodder and straw for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for my concubine and me and for my servant. We have everything we need.”