12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?
13Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.
15And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,
16Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
17And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.
18And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.
