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Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
14
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15
The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
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The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
18
The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.
19
The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20
The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
21
The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
22
The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
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The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.