This Gibeah was a city in the tribe of Benjamin, and it was directly on the road towards Shiloh. The resolution therefore of the Levite app ears to be very proper, for certainly there should seem to be more courtesy by right to be expected by an Israelite from a Benjamite, than from the Jebusites. But the sequel shows that this was ill-founded. Alas! how many are there professing the pure and merciful religion of the Lord Jesus, whose lives need blush in the view of men of no religion.

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