07:020:046 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin
were twenty and
five
thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men
of
valour.
07:020:047 But six hundred men turned and fled to
the wilderness unto the
rock
Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
07:020:048 And the men of Israel turned again upon
the children of
Benjamin,
and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well
the
men of every city, as the beast, and all that came
to
hand:
also they set on fire all the cities that they came
to.
07:021:001 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh,
saying, There shall
not
any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
07:021:002 And the people came to the house of God,
and abode there till
even
before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
07:021:003 And said, O lord God of Israel, why
is this come to pass in
Israel,
that there should be to day one tribe lacking in
Israel?
07:021:004 And it came to pass on the morrow, that
the people rose early,
and
built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and
peace
offerings.
07:021:005 And the children of Israel said, Who is
there among all the
tribes
of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto
the
lord? For they had made a great oath concerning
him that
came
not up to the lord to Mizpeh, saying, He shall
surely be
put
to death.
07:021:006 And the children of Israel repented them
for Benjamin their
brother,
and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this
day.
07:021:007 How shall we do for wives for them that
remain, seeing we have
sworn
by the lord that we will not give them of our
daughters
to
wives?
07:021:008 And they said, What one is there of the
tribes of Israel that
came
not up to Mizpeh to the lord? And, behold,
there came
none
to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
07:021:009 For the people were numbered, and, behold,
there were none of
the
inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
07:021:010 And the congregation sent thither twelve
thousand men of the
valiantest,
and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the
inhabitants
of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with
the
women and the children.
07:021:011 And this is the thing that ye shall do,
Ye shall utterly
destroy
every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
07:021:012 And they found among the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead four
hundred
young virgins, that had known no man by lying with
any
male:
and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which
is
in
the land of Canaan.


