But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Judges 20:9 in context
Judges 20:6–12
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I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
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Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
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All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
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But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
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and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you?
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