Devine Scripture

Judges 19:16

Judges chapter 19 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And, 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And, 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.

Context

v.15And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

v.16This passage

v.17And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 3:19

    in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  • Judges 19:1

    And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

  • Proverbs 14:23

    In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:13

    And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

  • Proverbs 13:11

    Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.