Judges 20
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Judges 20:5-10

5And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.

6So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.

7Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."

8And all the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.

9But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot,

10and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel."

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