Bible Verses About The Armies of Israel: Refusing to join, often punished

Then they asked who from the tribes of Isra'el had not come up to ADONAI at Mitzpah and found that none had come from Yavesh-Gil'ad to the camp where the assembly was;

since when the people were counted, none of the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil'ad were found there.

So the gathering sent 12,000 warriors there and ordered them, "Go, and put the people who live in Yavesh-Gil'ad to death with the sword, including women and children.

Completely destroy every man and every woman who has had sex with a man."