He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.

The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

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

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

The other man said, “Without a doubt this symbolizes the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”