That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

All Israel rose up in unison and said, “Not one of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!

The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.

Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

He said to her, “Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say ‘No.’”

He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.

The woman ran at once and told her husband, “Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “Yes.”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.”