Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

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

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Blessed be the Lord,
For He has shown His marvelous favor and lovingkindness to me [when I was assailed] in a besieged city.

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

Panic and pitfalls beset us, along with devastation and ruin.

The young men of Aven and Pi-beseth, by the sword, shall fall; And lo! into captivity, stall they themselves wend their way.

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