On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and enjoy yourself.”