As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.

Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,