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10-11 So they sent 12,000 warriors with these orders: “Attack Jabesh in Gilead and kill everyone, except the women who have never been married.”

12 The warriors attacked Jabesh in Gilead, and returned to their camp at Shiloh in Canaan[a] with 400 young women.

13 The Israelites met and sent messengers to the men of Benjamin at Rimmon Rock, telling them that the Israelites were willing to make peace with them.

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Footnotes

  1. 21.12 in Canaan: Jabesh was in Gilead, across the Jordan River from the land of Canaan.

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