1. At Mizpah the men of Israel had sworn, “Not one of us will let his daughter marry a man from the tribe of Benjamin.”
2. The people went to the city of Bethel and sat before God until evening, crying loudly.
3. They said, “Lord, God of Israel, why has this terrible thing happened to us so that one tribe of Israel is missing today?”
4. Early the next day the people built an altar and put burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to God on it.