Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
"I am now going to the house of Jehovah"  (Judges 19:18).  "By `the house of Yahweh' we must understand Shiloh ...  Everywhere else in the story, however, and even in the immediately preceding context we are given to understand that the Levite is returning to his own home, which is not at Shiloh."[10]  Keil fully explained this alleged contradiction.  "The proper translation of the words, `I go to the house of Jehovah,' is actually, `I walk at the house of Jehovah,' meaning simply that `he worked there.' This the man gave as a reason why no one in Gibeah would take him in.  It was because he served at the house of Jehovah in Shiloh!"[11]  The words "I go to the house of Jehovah" could not possibly have been a statement of the Levite's destination, for that he had already uttered in the same breath. Of course, the critic's explanation of this involves theories of multiple sources, redactors and editors; but if there was indeed a contradiction here, just what kind of `an editor' would have put it together?