20. And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to assault the city.
21. And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa, slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.
22. Again Israel trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:
23. Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him, and said: Shall I go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin my brethren, or not? And he answered them: Go up against them, and join battle.
24. And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,
25. The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill eighteen thousand men that drew the sword.
26. Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,
27. And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord was there,