Judges 20:2-17

CAB^{(i) 2} And all the tribes of Israel stood before the Lord in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew the sword. ³ And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah: and the children of Israel came and said, Tell us, where did this wickedness take place? ⁴ And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I and my concubine went to Gibeah of Benjamin to lodge. ⁵ And the men of Gibeah rose up against me, and surrounded the house by night against me; they wanted to kill me, and they have humbled my concubine, and she is dead. ⁶ And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and abomination in Israel. ⁷ Behold, all you are children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves. ⁸ And all the people rose up as one man, saying, None of us shall return to his tent, and none of us shall return to his house. ⁹ And now this is the thing which shall be done in Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot. ¹⁰ Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gibeah of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination which they have done in Israel. ¹¹ And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one man. ¹² And the tribes of Israel sent men through the whole tribe of Benjamin, saying, What is this wickedness that has been done among you? ¹³ Now then give up the men, the sons of transgressors that are in Gibeah, and we will put them to death, and purge out the wickedness from Israel. But the children of Benjamin consented not to hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel. ¹⁴ And the children of Benjamin were gathered from their cities to Gibeah, to go forth to fight with the children of Israel. ¹⁵ And the children of Benjamin from their cities were numbered in that day, twenty-three thousand, every man drawing a sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men of all the people, able to use both hands alike. ¹⁶ All these could sling with stones at a hair, and not miss. ¹⁷ And the men of Israel, exclusive of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of war.