Judges 19:15
 Judges 19:15 
New International Version (© 2011)
There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.

King James Bible
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

No man - took them into his house to lodging - There was probably no inn or house of public entertainment in this place, and therefore they could not have a lodging unless furnished by mere hospitality. To say that there were no inns in those primitive times, is not true; there were such places, though not very frequent. Joseph's brethren found their money in their sacks when they loosed them at an inn, Genesis 42:27. The house of Rahab was an inn, Joshua 2:1. And the woman whose house Samson frequented at Gaza was a hostess, or one who kept a place of public entertainment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

no man. There was probably no inn, or house of public entertainment in this place; and therefore they could not gave a lodging unless furnished by mere hospitality. But these Benjamites seem to have added to their other vices, avarice and inhospitality, like the inhabitants of Akoura in mount Lebanon, mentioned by Burckhardt

Judges 19:18 And he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from there am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah...

Genesis 18:2-8 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, see, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door...

Genesis 19:2,3 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night...

Matthew 25:35,43 For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in...

Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Judges 19:15 Parallel Commentaries
Broad City Enter Entered House Lodge Night Open Order Purpose Road Sat Seating Spend Square Stopped Stopping Street Thither Turned
Broad City Enter Entered House Lodge Night Open Order Purpose Road Sat Seating Spend Square Stopped Stopping Street Thither Turned
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Judges 19:14 So they went on, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
Judges 19:16 That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.