³(The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said to the Levite, “Tell us how this evil thing happened.”

⁴So the husband of the murdered woman answered, “My slave woman and I came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night. ⁵During the night the men of Gibeah came after me. They surrounded the house and wanted to kill me. They forced my slave woman to have sexual relations and she died. ⁶I took her and cut her into parts and sent one part to each area of Israel because the people of Benjamin did this wicked and terrible thing in Israel. ⁷Now, all you Israelites, speak up. What is your decision?”

⁸Then 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! ⁹Now this is what we will do to Gibeah. We will throw lots. ¹⁰That 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.” ¹¹So all the men of Israel were united and gathered against the city.

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