And they turned aside there, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat himself down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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! (Haydock)
There was no inn it seems at Gabaa, though we read of some at Jericho, Gaza, chap. xvi. 1., Josue ii. 1., and Genesis xlii. 27. (Calmet)
