9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will go against it by lot.
10 We will take ten men out of every hundred, from every tribe of Israel, a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand, to bring provisions for the troops. Then when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay them for all the evil that they committed in Israel.”
11 So all the men of Israel gathered at the city, united like one man.
12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the whole tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this evil that has been committed among you?
13 Now hand over the wicked men in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and purge the evil from Israel.”Yet the Benjamites were not willing to listen to their fellow children of Israel.
14 The Benjamites gathered from their cities at Gibeah in order to go out and wage war against the children of Israel.
15 That day, the Benjamites mustered twenty-six thousand armed men from the cities and seven hundred specially chosen men from Gibeah.