9. Now as for Gibeah, this is what we will do: We will go up against it by lot,
10. taking from all the tribes of Israel ten men for every hundred, a hundred for every thousand, a thousand for every ten thousand, and procuring supplies for the soldiers who will go to exact from Gibeah of Benjamin the full measure of the terrible thing it committed in Israel.”
11. So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one.
12. The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin to say, “What is this evil that has occurred among you?
13. Now give up the men, the scoundrels who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and thus purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their kindred, the Israelites.
14. Instead, the Benjaminites assembled from their cities at Gibeah, to march out to battle with the Israelites.
15. On that day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand swordsmen, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered seven hundred picked men
16. who were left-handed, every one of them able to sling a stone at a hair without missing.
17. The men of Israel, without Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them warriors.