He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
The domestic affairs of this Levite would not have been related thus largely but to make way for the following story of the injuries done him, in which the whole nation interested themselves. Bishop Hall's first remark upon this story is, That there is no complain of a public ordered state but there is a Levite at one end of it, either as an agent or as a patient.
Commenting on Judges 19:1-15
And he said to his servant, come, and let us draw near,.... And get on as fast as we can: to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah; which were both in the tribe of Benjamin, and he left it to his servant to go to either, to that which was most convenient, because of the time of the...
in Gibeah, or in Ramah--The first of these places was five miles northeast, the other from four to five north of Jerusalem.