15There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them into his home for the night.


In Context

12 His master replied, "No. We won't go into an alien city, whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah."

13 He added, "Come, let's try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places."

14 So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

15 There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them into his home for the night.

16 That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the men of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.

17 When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

Judges 19:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for [there was] no man that took them into his house to lodging.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned into it, to lodge there. And when they were come in, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them to lodge.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gib'e-ah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:15and they turn aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah, and he goeth in and sitteth in a broad place of the city, and there is no man gathering them into the house to lodge.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.