Discovery BoxJudges 19:12-16 
Context19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. 1 We will travel on to Gibeah.” 19:13 He said to his servant, 2 “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns 3 and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.” 19:14 So they traveled on, 4 and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 5 19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night 6 in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. 7
19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. 8 The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) 9
1 tn Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”
2 tn Or “young man.”
3 tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”
4 tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”
5 tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”
6 tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
7 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”
8 tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”
9 tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”
