Bible Verses About The Jews: Obliged to unite against enemies

Moshe said to them, "If you will do this - if you will arm yourselves to go before ADONAI to the war,

and if every one of your soldiers will cross the Yarden before ADONAI, until he has driven out his enemies ahead of him,

and if the land has been conquered before ADONAI, and only after that do you return - then you will be clear before ADONAI and before Isra'el, and this land here will be yours to possess before ADONAI.

All the people of Isra'el came out, from Dan to Be'er-sheva, including Gil'ad; the community assembled with one accord before ADONAI at Mitzpah.

The leaders of all the tribes of Isra'el presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 foot soldiers armed with swords.

Now the people of Binyamin heard that the people of Isra'el had gone up to Mitzpah. The people of Isra'el said, "Tell us, how was this crime committed?"

The Levi, the husband of the murdered woman, answered, "I came to Giv'ah, which belongs to Binyamin, I and my concubine, to stay the night;

and the men in Giv'ah attacked me and surrounded the house I was staying in at night. They wanted to kill me, but instead they raped my concubine to death.

I took my concubine's body, cut it into pieces and sent them throughout all the territories belonging to Isra'el; because they committed a shockingly obscene and degrading crime in Isra'el.

Look, you are all people of Isra'el. So discuss what to do, and give your advice here and now."

All the people stood up in agreement and said, "None of us will go home to his tent or his house.

What we will do now to Giv'ah is this: we'll draw lots,

we'll take ten men out of each hundred throughout all the tribes of Isra'el, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to collect food for the others. When these come to Giv'ah in Binyamin, they will avenge the crime that was committed."

Thus all the men of Isra'el, joined together in complete agreement, assembled to attack the city.

The tribes of Isra'el sent men throughout all the tribe of Binyamin with this message: "What is this crime committed by some of your people?

Turn over these good-for-nothings who are in Giv'ah at once, so that we can execute them and rid Isra'el of such evil." But the people of Binyamin refused to obey the order of their kinsmen the people of Isra'el.

Instead the people of Binyamin gathered themselves together from their cities and went to Giv'ah to fight the people of Isra'el.

On that day there were 26,000 men from Binyamin armed with swords, besides the inhabitants of Giv'ah, who numbered 700 specially chosen men.

All of these 700 specially picked men were left-handed, and every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

The army of Isra'el, apart from Binyamin, numbered 400,000 men with swords; they were all experienced soldiers.

The army of Isra'el began by going up to Beit-El, where they asked God, "Who should go up first to attack the army of Binyamin?" ADONAI said, "Y'hudah first."

So the army of Isra'el got up in the morning and set up their camp near Giv'ah.

Then the army of Isra'el went out to attack Binyamin and set up their battle line in front of Giv'ah.

But the army of Binyamin came out of Giv'ah and slaughtered the army of Isra'el; on that day 22,000 men fell.

The people, the men of Isra'el, restored their morale and again positioned themselves for battle where they had been the first day.