¹² The Israelites heard about this and the whole assembly of the Israelites gathered together at Shiloh to go and attack them.

¹³ The Israelites sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and one of the halves of the tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead. ¹⁴ With him they sent ten leaders, a leader for each of the tribes of Israel, each one the head of an ancestral clan among the divisions of Israel.