The Judgment on Jabesh-gilead

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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;

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

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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.

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

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Among the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil'ad they found 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Kena'an.

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Then the whole gathering sent a message proclaiming peace to the people of Binyamin who were at the Rock of Rimmon.

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So Binyamin returned at that time, and the people of Isra'el gave them the women they had kept alive of the women from Yavesh-Gil'ad. But those weren't enough for them.

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The people were still sorry for Binyamin because ADONAI had made a division among the tribes of Isra'el.

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