5. And the men of Gibeah rose against me and beset the house round about me by night; they meant to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
6. And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and [wicked] folly in Israel.
7. Behold, you Israelites, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
8. And all the people arose as one man, saying, Not any of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his home.
9. But now this we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it,
10. And we will take ten men of 100 throughout all the tribes of Israel, and 100 of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000, to bring provisions for the men, that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin they may do to them according to all the [wicked] folly which they have committed in Israel.
11. So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.
12. And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that has been done among you?
13. Now therefore, give up the men [involved], the base fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel. But the Benjamites would not listen to the voice of their kinsmen the Israelites.
14. But the Benjamites out of the cities assembled at Gibeah to go out to battle against the other Israelites.