7 What can we do to find wives for those who are left? For we swore by the Lord not to give them our daughters as wives.”
8 So they said, “Is there anyone from among the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” Then they learned that no one from the camp of Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly.
9 When the people were counted, indeed, there was not a man there from among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.
10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand valorous men there and commanded them, “Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including women and children.
11 This is what you will do: You will kill every man and every woman who has slept with a man.”
12 So among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13 Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace.