<p class="bodytext">He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, &#8220;Describe for me<n id="1" /> the men you killed at Tabor.&#8221; They said, &#8220;They were like you. Each one looked like a king&#8217;s son.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Now the temple<n id="1" /> was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

There was a fortified<n id="1" /> tower<n id="2" /> in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city&#8217;s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

<p class="bodytext">So the five men journeyed on<n id="1" /> and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there<n id="2" /> were living securely, like the Sidonians do,<n id="3" /> undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way.<n id="4" /> They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.<n id="5" />

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish<n id="1" /> said to their kinsmen,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.&#8221;

The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole<n id="1" /> the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.<n id="2" />

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite<n id="1" /> grabbed his concubine and made her go outside.<n id="2" /> They raped<n id="3" /> her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings<n id="1" /> in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.