9. Then when the husband was ready to go with his concubine and servant, the young woman’s father said to him, “See, the day is wearing on toward evening. Stay for the night. See, the day is coming to an end. Spend the night here and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow you can start your journey home.”
10. The man, however, refused to stay another night; he and his concubine set out with a pair of saddled donkeys, and traveled until they came opposite Jebus, which is Jerusalem.
11. Since they were near Jebus with the day far gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let us turn off to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”
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?”