Judges 19:15 Parallel Translations

They went to spend the night there. The Levite entered Gibeah and sat down in the city square, because no one offered to take them home for the night.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And 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.

ASV:

And 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.

BBE:

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

DBY:

and 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.

ERV:

And 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.

JPS:

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

WBS:

And 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.

WEB:

They 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.

YLT:

and 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.

Judges 19:15 Cross References

XREF:

Judges 19:14 So they passed along and went their way, and the sun set on them near Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.

Judges 19:16 Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

19:15 To lodge - Though they were soft and effeminate in other respects, yet they were hard - hearted to strangers, and at that time there were no public - houses in that country.

MHC:

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

CONC:

Aside Broad Enter Entered Gathering Gibeah Gib'e-ah Home Lodge Lodging Open Order Purpose Road Sat Seating Sitteth Spend Square Stopping Street Thither Town Turn

Broad City Enter Entered House Lodge Night Open Order Purpose Road Sat Seating Spend Square Stopped Stopping Street Thither Turned

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