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:
9. But this we will do in common against Gabaa:
10. We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring victuals for the army, that we might fight against Gabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for its wickedness, what it deserveth.
11. And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one man, with one mind, and one counsel:
12. And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin to say to them: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?
13. Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous crime, that they may die, and the evil may be taken away out of Israel. But they would not hearken to the proposition of their brethren the children of Israel:
14. But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the whole people of Israel.