1 In Mizpah the men of Israel had taken an oath: “No one among us will give his daughter to a Benjamite as his wife.”
2 So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They raised their voices and wept, sobbing loudly.
3 They said, “Why, Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel, that today a tribe is missing from Israel?”
4 In the morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.