07:020:003 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that
the children of
Israel
were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of
Israel,
Tell us, how was this wickedness?
07:020:004 And the Levite, the husband of the woman
that was slain,
answered
and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to
Benjamin,
I and my concubine, to lodge.
07:020:005 And the men of Gibeah rose against me,
and beset the house
round
about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me:
and
my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
07:020:006 And I took my concubine, and cut her in
pieces, and sent her
throughout
all the country of the inheritance of Israel:
for
they
have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
07:020:007 Behold, ye are all children of Israel;
give here your advice
and
counsel.
07:020:008 And all the people arose as one man, saying,
We will not any
of
us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into
his
house.
07:020:009 But now this shall be the thing which we
will do to Gibeah; we
will
go up by lot against it;
07:020:010 And we will take ten men of an hundred
throughout all the
tribes
of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand
out
of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that
they
may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according
to
all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
07:020:011 So all the men of Israel were gathered
against the city, knit
together
as one man.
07:020:012 And the tribes of Israel sent men through
all the tribe of
Benjamin,
saying, What wickedness is this that is done among
you?
07:020:013 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children
of Belial,
which
are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put
away
evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin
would not
hearken
to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
07:020:014 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out
of
the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against
the
children
of Israel.
07:020:015 And the children of Benjamin were numbered
at that time out of
the
cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword,
beside
the
inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred
chosen
men.
07:020:016 Among all this people there were seven
hundred chosen men
lefthanded;
every one could sling stones at an hair breadth,
and
not miss.
07:020:017 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin,
were numbered four
hundred
thousand men that drew sword: all these were men
of
war.


