Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ² 

Judges 19:28

19:28 He said to her, “Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home. ³ 

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ⁴  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁵  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁶  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁷  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ⁸ 

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ⁹  was far from Sidon ¹⁰  and they had no dealings with anyone. ¹¹  The city ¹²  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ¹³  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ¹⁴  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ¹⁵  in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. ¹⁶  But no one has invited me into their home.

¹ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

² tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

³ tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”

⁵ tn Or “went.”

⁶ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

⁷ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

⁸ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

⁹ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

⁷ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

⁸ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁹ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

¹¹ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹¹ tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”