Judges 19:15-22

¹⁵They stopped in Gibeah to spend the night, and sat down in the town's main square, but no one invited them to come and stay.

¹⁶But later that evening an old man came by, returning from working in the fields. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but was now living in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.

¹⁷He looked over and noticed the traveler in the square and asked, “Where are you going and where have you come from?”

¹⁸“We've come from Bethlehem in Judah and we're going to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim,” the man replied. “I'm from there and I went to Bethlehem, and now I'm going to the Lord's Temple. No one here has invited me to stay.

¹⁹There's straw and food for our donkeys, and we your servants have bread and wine—enough for me, the woman, and my servant. We have all we need.”

²⁰“You are welcome to stay with me,” the man replied. “I can let you have everything you need. Just don't spend the night here in the square.”

²¹He took him home and fed the donkeys. The travelers washed their feet and then started to eat and drink.

²²While they were enjoying themselves, some depraved men from the town came and surrounded the house, and banged on the door, shouting to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to stay in your house so we can have sex with him.”