²⁵ This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites,^(A) all of them armed with swords.

²⁶ Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord.^(B) They fasted^(C) that day until evening and presented burnt offerings^(D) and fellowship offerings^(E) to the Lord.^{(F) 27} And the Israelites inquired of the Lord.^(G) (In those days the ark of the covenant of God^(H) was there,