Judges 20:3-9

³The tribe of Benjamin found out that the Israelites had assembled at Mizpah. The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how could such an evil act have happened?”

⁴The Levite, the husband of the woman who had been murdered, explained, “I and my concubine came to spend the night at the town of Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.

⁵The leaders of Gibeah came to attack me at night. They surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine and she died.

⁶I took my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent these pieces of her to every part of the country that had been given to Israel, because those men had done something shameful and disgusting in Israel.

⁷So all of you Israelites have to decide here and now what you're going to do about it!”

⁸Everyone stood up and unitedly declared, “None of us are going home to our tents! None of us are going home to our houses!

⁹This is what we're going to do to Gilboah: we will attack it with our forces chosen by lot.