9. For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
10. So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.
11. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”
12. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13. Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.
14. And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.
15. And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16. Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”