¹³ Hand over the wicked men^(A) in Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge evil^(B) from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites. ¹⁴ Instead, the Benjaminites gathered together from their cities to Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites. ¹⁵ On that day the Benjaminites mobilized twenty-six thousand armed men^(C) from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah.