11. And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,
12. the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.
13. So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead – to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
14. With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.
15. When they went to Gilead – to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh – they said to them: