19:14–20:48 The story of what happened to the Levite in Gibeah is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:1–13). Gibeah’s sin was like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Benjaminites were destroyed by the Lord’s permission and assistance (20:18, 28, 35). Saul was from Benjamin, and it would not have helped him or his descendants for these events to be remembered.