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.
19So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.
20And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).
21Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.
22But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.
23Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.
24So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.
