His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
Now, in those days they didn't have motels, hotel kind of things and people were just gracious and they would just take you into their home. If you were a traveler coming along, hospitality was a thing of the day, you know, "Come and spend the night with us." And so no one invited him to spend the night.And an old man was coming in from the fields. He had been working rather late and he also was from the Mount Ephraim area, which meant that he was of the tribe of Ephraim, not a Benjamite. And he saw this fellow in the street and he said, "What are you doing here in the street? You can't spend the night in the street."He said, "Well, no one's invited me home."He said, "Well, come on home to my house."He said, "Where you from?"He said, "I'm from Ephraim. I have been journeying from Bethlehem." "Oh, I'm from Ephraim, too. Where are you from? Do you know so-and-so." "Yeah." You know and that kind of stuff. And so he invited him home to spend the night with him. And as it got dark the men of Gibeah came to the door and they began to pound on the door and they said,