Judges 20:1-9

1Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the Lord in Mizpah.

2The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords.

3(The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”

4So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

5During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.

6I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel.

7Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.”

8All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house.

9But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.