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


In Context

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?"

18 He answered, "We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the LORD . No one has taken me into his house.

19 We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants-me, your maidservant, and the young man with us. We don't need anything."

Judges 19:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:17And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with his bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest thou? and whither goest thou?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:17And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:17And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, |Where are you going? and whence do you come?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:17And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a way-faring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:17He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, |Where are you going? Where did you come from?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:17And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the man, the traveller, in a broad place of the city, and the aged man saith, 'Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:17And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Where go you? and from where come you?