Judges 19:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibe-ah; the men of the place were Benjaminites.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Psalm 104:23

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 14:23

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.

Hosea 9:9

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibe-ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

Judges 19:1

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 19:14

So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibe-ah, which belongs to Benjamin,

Judges 19:15

and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibe-ah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night.

Judges 19:17

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? and whence do you come?”