Judges 20:9

9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will throw lots.

Judges 20:9 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:9

But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah,
&c.] Where the fact was done; what follows was proposed by some, and unanimously agreed to by all:

we will go up by lot against it;
cast lots who shall go up to it and demand satisfaction for the offence committed; and if denied, to act in an hostile manner against it.

Judges 20:9 In-Context

7 Now, all you Israelites, speak up. What is your decision?"

8 Then all the people stood up at the same time, saying, "None of us will go home. Not one of us will go back to his house!

9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will throw lots.

10 That way we will choose ten men from every hundred men from all the tribes of Israel, and we will choose a hundred men from every thousand, and a thousand men from every ten thousand. These will find supplies for the army. Then the army will go to the city of Gibeah of Benjamin to repay them for the terrible thing they have done in Israel."

11 So all the men of Israel were united and gathered against the city.