9and now, this [is] the thing which we do to Gibeah -- against it by lot!
10and we have taken ten men of a hundred, of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of a myriad, to receive provision for the people, to do, at their coming to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly which it hath done in Israel.`
11And every man of Israel is gathered unto the city, as one man -- companions.
12And the tribes of Israel send men among all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, `What [is] this evil which hath been among you?
13And now, give up the men -- sons of worthlessness -- which [are] in Gibeah, and we put them to death, and we put away evil from Israel.` And [the sons of] Benjamin have not been willing to hearken to the voice of their brethren, the sons of Israel;
14and the sons of Benjamin are gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle with the sons of Israel.
15And the sons of Benjamin number themselves on that day; out of the cities [are] twenty and six thousand men drawing sword, apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah, [who] numbered themselves, seven hundred chosen men;