OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 19:15

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They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.

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Verse 15. Lodge. No one invited them in. How much had these people degenerated from the manners of Abraham and of Lot, to imitate those of the men of Sodom! Bible.—There was no inn it seems at Gabaa, though we read of some at Jericho, Gaza, and so forth Calmet. 16:1. Joshua 2:1. Genesis 42:27. Calmet.

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