Judges 20:7-18

⁷Behold, ye are al children of Israel: giue your aduise, and counsell herein.

⁸Then all the people arose as one man, saying, There shall not a man of vs goe to his tent, neither any turne into his house.

⁹But now this is that thing which we will do to Gibeah: we wil goe vp by lot against it,

¹⁰And we wil take ten men of the hundreth throughout al the tribes of Israel, and an hundreth of the thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand to bring vitaile for the people that they may do (when they come to Gibeah of Beniamin) according to all the villeny, that it hath done in Israel.

¹¹So all the men of Israel were gathered against the citie, knit together, as one man.

¹²And the tribes of Israel sent men through al the tribe of Beniamin, saying, What wickednesse is this that is committed among you?

¹³Nowe therefore deliuer vs those wicked men which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away euill from Israel: but the children of Beniamin would not obey the voyce of their brethren the children of Israel.

¹⁴But ye children of Beniamin gathered them selues together out of the cities vnto Gibeah, to come out and fight against the children of Israel.

¹⁵And ye children of Beniamin were nombred at that time out of the cities sixe and twenty thousand men that drewe sworde, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were nombred seuen hundreth chosen men.

¹⁶Of all this people were seuen hundreth chosen men, being left handed: all these could sling stones at an heare breadth, and not faile.

¹⁷Also the men of Israel, beside Beniamin, were nombred foure hundreth thousande men that drew sword, euen all men of warre.

¹⁸And the children of Israel arose, and went vp to the house of God, and asked of God, saying, Which of vs shall goe vp first to fight against the children of Beniamin? And the Lord said, Iudah shalbe first.