Judges 19:15-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁵ They stopped there to spend the night. They came to the public square [^Can open area inside the city gate, the hub for business, government, and social interaction] of the city and sat down, but no one invited them home to spend the night [^Ca mark of shame for the city, since hospitality was of great importance; contrast this with vv. 3–9].

¹⁶ Finally, in the evening an old man came in from his work in the fields. His home was in the ·mountains [hill country] of Ephraim, but now he was ·living [residing; staying] in Gibeah. (The people of Gibeah were from the tribe of Benjamin.) ¹⁷ He saw the traveler in the public square and asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”