But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.
"They sat down in the street ... no man took them into his house"  (Judges 19:15).  Yates pointed out that the man, along with his servant and his concubine, went to the open area at the city gate, the same being something like a public market, where the magistrates of the city sat, and where a stranger would have waited to receive hospitality.  "He waited in the public square, inside the gate of the city; but no man of Gibeah offered hospitality."[9]