14 Instead, the Benjaminites assembled from their cities at Gibeah, to march out to battle with the Israelites.
15 On that day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand swordsmen, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered seven hundred picked men
16 who were left-handed, every one of them able to sling a stone at a hair without missing.
17 The men of Israel, without Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them warriors.
18 They went up to Bethel and consulted God. When the Israelites asked, “Who shall go up first for us to do battle with the Benjaminites?” the Lord said: Judah first.
19 The Israelites rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
20 The men of Israel marched out to do battle with Benjamin and drew up in battle array against them at Gibeah.