Judges 20:7-18

⁷Behold, ye are all here children of Israel: furnish for yourselves here advice and counsel.

⁸And all the people then arose as one man, saying, We will not go any of us to his tent, neither will we turn any of us into his house.

⁹And now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gib'ah: We will go up against it by lot;

¹⁰And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to procure provisions for the people; that they may do, when they come to Gib'ah of Benjamin, in accordance with all the scandalous deed that they have wrought in Israel.

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

¹²And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the divisions of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that hath been done among you?

¹³Now therefore deliver up the men, those worthless people, who are in Gib'ah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

¹⁴And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gib'ah, to go out to battle with the children of Israel.

¹⁵And at that time there were numbered of the children of Benjamin out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew the sword, beside the inhabitants of Gib'ah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

¹⁶Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lame in the right hand: every one of these could sling a stone at a hair, and would not miss.

¹⁷And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew the sword: all these were men of war.

¹⁸And they arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and the children of Israel said, Who of us shall go up at first to the battle with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah, at first.