¹² When the Israelis heard that announcement,^[a] the entire community of the Israelis gathered together at Shiloh in preparation for war.

¹³ Then the Israelis sent a delegation^[b] to the descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead. They sent^[c] Eleazar’s son Phinehas the priest, ¹⁴ and ten officials with him (one for each of the tribal families of Israel, each one of them a family leader among the tribes^[d] of Israel).