<p class="bodytext">The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe<n id="1" /> of Benjamin, saying, &#8220;How could such a wicked thing take place?<n id="2" />

The leaders<n id="1" /> of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God&#8217;s people, which numbered<n id="2" /> four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place<n id="1" /> to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.<n id="2" />

We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army.<n id="1" /> When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />

The Israelites asked, &#8220;Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the <sc>Lordsc>?&#8221; They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the <sc>Lordsc> at Mizpah must certainly be executed.<n id="1" />