9. Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman’s father, said, “Now look, it’s almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”
10. But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
11. When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let’s stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”
12. His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
13. He added, “Come, let’s try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.”
14. So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
15. There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.
16. That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.
17. When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”