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;

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>

<p class="bodytext">But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field.<n id="1" /> The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)<n id="2" />

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings<n id="1" /> in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.