11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one.
12And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
13Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.
14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.
17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.
18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Who shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel set themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
21And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.
22And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day.