The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. I am going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man who will take me into his home.

His concubine was unfaithful to him and went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem of Judah, and was there about four months.