Judges 19:15
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging. And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges 19:15 stands in Judges 17-21, a section to be studied together with Joshua 23-24 and Judges 1-10. Although placed in the closing chapters of Judges, whose main narrative ends with chapter 16, its events happened in the early part of the judges period. In chronological order Judges 17-21 comes before Judges 11-16.
The verse belongs to the account that illustrates Israel's low state before the call of Samuel the prophet. It describes travelers turning aside to lodge in Gibeah as the sun went down and sitting down in the street of the city as evening came on. That turning aside at sunset shows that the day commences in the vicinity of sunset, though not always at the same clock point because the rising and setting of the sun constantly vary.
The verse shows Israel's moral disorder in the period when people did what was right in their own eyes. In Gibeah no one offered the travelers lodging, amid a condition of gross immorality, illustrating the evil that follows such self-rule. It belongs to a record of Israel's backsliding and the disgrace and punishment that followed, showing that no one can backslide with impunity. It belongs to the account of Gibeah's crime, in which the people of Gibeah and the tribe of Benjamin are implicated.
The closing chapters to which the verse belongs record internecine strife, ruffianism, and bloodshed. The surrounding account exposes how social customs and tribal loyalty could be valued above women's safety and justice. Such failures do not excuse sin.