Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah – a total of ten cities and their towns.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

<t /><p class="poetry">O Israel, you have sinned since the time<n id="1" /> of Gibeah,p> <p class="poetry">and there you have remained.p> <p class="poetry">Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?p>

Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.<n id="1" />

The Israelites got up the next morning and moved<n id="1" /> against Gibeah.

<p class="bodytext">Ithai<n id="1" /> son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjaminite territory,p> <p class="bodytext">Benaiah the Pirathonite,p>

<t /><p class="poetry">They have sunk deep into corruption<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as in the days of Gibeah.p> <p class="poetry">He will remember their wrongdoing.p> <p class="poetry">He will repay them for their sins.p>

He said to his servant,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come on, we will go into one of the other towns<n id="2" /> and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.&#8221;

So they traveled on,<n id="1" /> and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.<n id="2" />

The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah<n id="1" /> to make war against the Israelites.

They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah,<n id="1" /> and annihilated<n id="2" /> them all the way to a spot east of Geba.<n id="3" />

Even Saul went to his home in Gibeah. With him went some brave men whose hearts God had touched.

<p class="bodytext">Saul&#8217;s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin<n id="1" /> looked on<n id="2" /> as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

Heled<n id="1" /> son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin,

<p class="poetry">They went through the pass,p> <p class="poetry">spent the night at Geba.p> <p class="poetry">Ramah trembled,p> <p class="poetry">Gibeah of Saul ran away.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Blow the ram&#8217;s horn in Gibeah!p> <p class="poetry">Sound the trumpet in Ramah!p> <p class="poetry">Sound the alarm in Beth Aven!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Tremble in fear,<n id="2" /> O Benjamin!p>

But his master said to him, &#8220;We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live.<n id="1" /> We will travel on to Gibeah.&#8221;

They stopped there and decided to spend the night<n id="1" /> in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.<n id="2" />p>

The Levite,<n id="1" /> the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, &#8220;I and my concubine stopped in<n id="2" /> Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin<n id="3" /> to spend the night.