Judges 20:12-17

12The Israelite tribes sent men with a message to all the places in Benjamin. They said, ‘You must know that some of your men have done an evil thing.

13Send those wicked men of Gibeah out to us. We must punish them with death. Only that will remove this terrible sin from Israel.’ But the people of Benjamin did not agree to do that.

14Instead, they came from all their towns and they met together at Gibeah to fight against the other Israelites.

1526,000 soldiers came to Gibeah with their weapons, ready to fight. There were also 700 brave soldiers already in Gibeah.

16In Benjamin's army there were 700 men who used their left hands to fight. Each of them could use a sling to throw a stone at a very small thing. They could even hit a hair!

17The other Israelite tribes, without Benjamin, had an army of 400,000 soldiers who knew how to use their weapons.