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The leaders of all Israel’s tribes took their places in the congregation of God’s people. There were 400,000 foot soldiers with swords. The people of Benjamin heard that Israel had come to Mizpah.

The people of Israel said, “Tell us how such an evil thing could happen.”

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered, “My concubine [a] and I went to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:4 A concubine   is considered a wife except she has fewer rights under the law.

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