Judges:20:1-21

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* Then all the children of Israel went out , and the congregation was gathered together as one man , from Dan even to Beersheba B @#er , with the land of Gilead Gil #ad #, unto the LORD in Mizpeh . * And the chief of all the people , even of all the tribes of Israel Yisra #el #, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God , four hundred thousand footmen #H7273that drew sword . * (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh . ) Then said the children of Israel Yisra #el #, Tell us , how was this wickedness ? * And the Levite Leviyiy #, the husband of the woman that was slain , answered and said , I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin , I and my concubine , to lodge . * 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 . * And I took my concubine , and cut her in pieces , and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel Yisra #el #: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel Yisra #el #. * Behold , ye are all children of Israel Yisra #el #; give here your advice and counsel . * And all the people arose as one man , saying , We will not any of us go to his tent , neither will we any of us turn into his house . * But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah Gib #ah #; we will go up by lot against it ; * And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel Yisra #el #, and an hundred of a thousand , and a thousand out of ten thousand , to fetch victual for the people , that they may do , when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin , according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel Yisra #el #. * So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city , knit together as one man . * And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin , saying , What wickedness is this that is done among you ? * Now therefore deliver us the men , the children of Belial b @liya #al #, which are in Gibeah Gib #ah #, that we may put them to death , and put away evil from Israel Yisra #el #. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel Yisra #el #: * But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah Gib #ah #, to go out to battle against the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword , beside the inhabitants of Gibeah Gib #ah #, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men . * Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded #H3027 yad #; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth , and not miss . * And the men of Israel Yisra #el #, beside Benjamin , were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword : all these were men of war . * And the children of Israel arose , and went up to the house of God # Beyth -#El #, and asked counsel of God , and said , Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin ? And the LORD said , Judah shall go up first . * And the children of Israel rose up in the morning , and encamped against Gibeah Gib #ah #. * And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin ; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah Gib #ah #. * And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah Gib #ah #, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men .

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