Judges 19:12-15
12And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to aGibeah.” 13And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at bRamah.” 14So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, 15and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, cfor no one took them into his house to spend the night.Judges 20:4-5
4And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, d“I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. 5 eAnd the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.1 Samuel 10:26
26Saul also went to his home fat Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.1 Samuel 13:15-16
15And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks The rest of the people . . . from Gilgal
to hGibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, iabout six hundred men. 16And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in jGeba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
Isaiah 10:29
29they have crossed over kthe pass;at lGeba they lodge for the night;
mRamah trembles;
nGibeah of Saul has fled.
Hosea 10:9
9 From othe days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust ▼
▼Hebrew the children of injustice
overtake them in Gibeah?
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