Judges 20:9-19

9 What we will do now to Giv'ah is this: we'll draw lots,
10 we'll take ten men out of each hundred throughout all the tribes of Isra'el, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to collect food for the others. When these come to Giv'ah in Binyamin, they will avenge the crime that was committed."
11 Thus all the men of Isra'el, joined together in complete agreement, assembled to attack the city.
12 The tribes of Isra'el sent men throughout all the tribe of Binyamin with this message: "What is this crime committed by some of your people?
13 Turn over these good-for-nothings who are in Giv'ah at once, so that we can execute them and rid Isra'el of such evil." But the people of Binyamin refused to obey the order of their kinsmen the people of Isra'el.
14 Instead the people of Binyamin gathered themselves together from their cities and went to Giv'ah to fight the people of Isra'el.
15 On that day there were 26,000 men from Binyamin armed with swords, besides the inhabitants of Giv'ah, who numbered 700 specially chosen men.
16 All of these 700 specially picked men were left-handed, and every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
17 The army of Isra'el, apart from Binyamin, numbered 400,000 men with swords; they were all experienced soldiers.
18 The army of Isra'el began by going up to Beit-El, where they asked God, "Who should go up first to attack the army of Binyamin?" ADONAI said, "Y'hudah first."
19 So the army of Isra'el got up in the morning and set up their camp near Giv'ah.
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