²⁶ And Saul also went home ^(A)to Gibeah; and valiant men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

⁴ So the messengers came ^(A)to Gibeah of Saul and told the news in the hearing of the people. And ^(B)all the people lifted up their voices and wept.

³⁴ Then Samuel went to ^(A)Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at ^(B)Gibeah of Saul.

²⁸ Zelah, Eleph, ^(A)Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

⁴⁸ Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. ^(A)And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his troubles, ^(A)and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

⁶ let seven men of his descendants be delivered ^(A)to us, and we will hang them before the Lord ^(B)in Gibeah of Saul, ^(C)whom the Lord chose.”

And the king said, “I will give them.”

¹⁴ Instead, the children of Benjamin gathered together from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.

¹² But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on ^(A)to Gibeah.” ¹³ So he said to his servant, “Come, let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night in Gibeah or in ^(B)Ramah.” ¹⁴ And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. ¹⁵ They turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would ^(C)take them into his house to spend the night.

¹⁶ Just then an old man came in from ^(D)his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephraim; he was staying in Gibeah, whereas the men of the place were Benjamites.