Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah – a total of ten cities and their towns.

The Israelites got up the next morning and moved ¹  against Gibeah.

So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Ithai ¹  son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjaminite territory, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

O Israel, you have sinned since the time ¹  of Gibeah, and there you have remained. Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

So they traveled on, ¹  and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ² 

Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates. ¹ 

The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah ¹  to make war against the Israelites.

The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they ¹  arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) ¹  and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. ² 

Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

Heled ¹  son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin,

They have sunk deep into corruption ¹  as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ¹ 

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.”

He said to his servant, ¹  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ²  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ¹  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ² 

The Levite, ¹  the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in ²  Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin ³  to spend the night.

The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. ¹  They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ¹