10 The community dispatched twelve thousand warriors there with these orders: "Go kill all the people in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
11 Here’s what you should do: Exterminate every man and every woman who has slept with a man."
12 Among the people of Jabesh-gilead, they found four hundred young women who had not known a man intimately or slept with one, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13 The whole community then sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon and offered them a truce.
14 So the Benjaminites returned at that time, and they gave them the women from Jabesh-gilead that they had allowed to live. Even so, there weren’t enough for them.
15 Since the people had a change of heart concerning the Benjaminites because the Lord had caused a rupture in the tribes of Israel,
16 the community elders said, "What can we do to provide wives for the ones who are left, seeing that the Benjaminite women have been destroyed?