4. Answered: I came into Gabaa of Benjamin with my wife, and there I lodged:
5. And behold the men of that city in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.
6. And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the, parts into all the borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a crime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.
7. You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.
8. And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man: We will not return to our tents, neither shall any one of us go into his own house: