13. He said to his servant, “Come, let us go to one of these places. We will spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
14. They continued and went on. The sun went down when they were near Gibeah in Benjamin.
15. So they turned aside there to go and spend the night in Gibeah. They went in and sat in the city square, but no one took them in to spend the night.
16. Just then, an old man came in at evening time from his work in the field. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim and lived as a resident foreigner in Gibeah, but the townspeople were Benjamites.
17. He looked up and saw the traveler in the city square. The old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”
18. He said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the Lord. No one has taken me into his home.
19. Yet there is enough straw and fodder for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servant. We do not lack anything.”