how was this wickedness brought to pass? 020:004 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. 020:005 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead. 020:006 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 lewdness and folly in Israel. 020:007 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel. 020:008 All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house. 020:009 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot; 020:010 and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel. 020:011 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. 020:012 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you? 020:013 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel. 020:014 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. 020:015 The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men. 020:016 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss. 020:017 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. 020:018 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first. 020:019 The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. 020:020 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. 020:021 The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,