The Judgment on Jabesh-gilead

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So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

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For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.

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So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.

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This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

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So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

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And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

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The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

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