12. And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.
13. Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
14. and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
15. And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,
16. “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord?