Judges 20:3–11

³(The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”

⁴So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah^z in Benjamin to spend the night.^{a 5}During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me.^b They raped my concubine, and she died.^{c 6}I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance,^d because they committed this lewd and outrageous act^e in Israel. ⁷Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.^f”

⁸All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. ⁹But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.^{g 10}We’ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah^a in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.” ¹¹So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.^h