1So all the peeps of Israel rolled out, and the squad was gathered up tight, from Dan to Beer-sheba, with Gilead, all for the Lord in Mizpeh.

2The top dogs of all the tribes of Israel showed up in the assembly, four hundred thousand foot soldiers ready to pop off.

3(The Benjamin crew heard that the Israel squad hit up Mizpeh.) Then the Israelites were like, “Yo, what’s with this savage move?”

4The Levite, whose wifey got wrecked, said, “I pulled up to Gibeah in Benjamin with my girl to chill.”

5But the Gibeah dudes came at me hard, surrounded the crib at night, and tried to take me out; they forced my girl, and now she’s gone.

6So I took my girl, chopped her up, and sent her around the whole land of Israel: they’ve been acting sus and wild in Israel.

7Yo, you’re all Israel fam; drop your thoughts and advice here.

8And the whole crew stood up as one, saying, “We ain’t going back to our tents or our cribs.”

9But now this is the plan for Gibeah; we’re gonna roll up on it by lot.

10We’ll grab ten men from every hundred across Israel, and a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand, to get food for the squad when they hit up Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the wild stuff they’ve done in Israel.

11So all the homies of Israel pulled up on the city, vibin' together like one squad.

12And the tribes of Israel sent peeps through all the tribe of Benjamin, like, "What kinda sus vibes are you on?"

13Now for real, deliver us the men, the kids of Belial, chillin' in Gibeah, so we can deal with them and get rid of the evil in Israel. But the kids of Benjamin were like, "Nah, we ain't listenin' to y'all."

14But the kids of Benjamin gathered up from the cities to Gibeah, ready to pop off against the kids of Israel.

15And the kids of Benjamin were counted at that time, twenty-six thousand sword-wielders, not counting the peeps from Gibeah, who had seven hundred goated men.

16Among all these folks, there were seven hundred left-handed legends; every one could sling stones with mad precision, no cap.

17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted at four hundred thousand sword-drawers: all these were straight-up warriors.

18And the kids of Israel got up, went to the house of God, and asked for the 411, saying, "Who’s gonna go first into battle against Benjamin?" And the Lord was like, "Judah's got this, they go first."

19And the kids of Israel rose up in the morning and set up camp against Gibeah.

20And the men of Israel rolled out to battle against Benjamin; they got themselves ready to fight at Gibeah.

21The fam from Benjamin rolled outta Gibeah and took down 22,000 of the Israelites that day. Savage vibes.

22The Israelites hyped each other up and got ready to battle again where they first squared off. Periodt.

23The Israelites went and cried out to the Lord until evening, asking, "Should we hit the battlefield again against our bro Benjamin?" And God was like, "Go for it."

24So, the Israelites came up on Benjamin again the next day.

25Benjamin came out of Gibeah again and wrecked another 18,000 of the Israelites; all these dudes were armed and ready. No cap.

26Then all the Israelites went up to the house of God, weeping and chilling there before the Lord, fasting till evening and offering burnt and peace offerings.

27The Israelites asked the Lord for guidance (the ark of the covenant was there back then).

28Phinehas, Eleazar's son, was standing there too, saying, "Should we go out to battle again against our bro Benjamin, or chill?" And the Lord said, "Go up; tomorrow I got you."

29So, Israel set traps around Gibeah, for real.

30The Israelites rolled up against Benjamin on the third day, getting ready for Gibeah like before.

31The fam from Benjamin rolled out to fight, pulling away from the city, and they started taking out people like it was just another day on the block, about thirty dudes from Israel caught in the crossfire.

32The Benjamin crew was like, "We got this, easy win," but the Israelites were like, "Nah, let’s bounce and lure them out to the roads."

33All the Israel guys stood up, ready to pop off at Baal-tamar, while the sneak squad from Israel came out from hiding in the fields of Gibeah.

34Then ten thousand top-tier warriors from all Israel rolled up on Gibeah, and the battle was intense, but they had no clue trouble was right around the corner.

35The Lord straight-up wrecked Benjamin in front of Israel, and that day, the Israelites took out twenty-five thousand and a hundred Benjamites—no cap, they were all swinging swords.

36The Benjamin squad realized they were getting wrecked: the Israel crew gave them space because they trusted the sneak squad they set up by Gibeah.

37The sneak squad moved quick and rushed Gibeah, taking over the whole city with their swords like it was a savage takeover.

38There was a major sign set up between the Israelites and the sneak squad, where they were supposed to light a big flame with smoke rising from the city.

39When the Israel guys pulled back in the battle, the Benjamites started taking out about thirty of them, thinking, "For sure, they’re down like last time."

40But when the flame shot up from the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites turned around and saw the city’s fire reaching up to the sky.

41When the Israel squad turned back, the Benjamites were shook: they realized some serious bad vibes were hitting them.

42So they dipped and ran into the wilderness, but the battle caught up to them; they took out those who came out from the cities, no cap.

43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them down, and crushed them easy near Gibeah when the sun was coming up.

44Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell that day; all of them were straight-up warriors.

45They turned and ran to the wilderness by the rock of Rimmon; they snagged five thousand men on the highways and chased hard after them to Gidom, taking out two thousand more.

46So all who went down that day from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who could throw down; all these were warriors.

47But six hundred men bounced and fled to the wilderness at the rock Rimmon, chilling there for four months.

48Then the Israel crew came back at the Benjamite kids and took them out with the sword, hitting every city and even the animals, setting all the cities ablaze as they went.

1Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.

2And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

4And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

6And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

7Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

8And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

9But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

13Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.

19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

22And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

23(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)

24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

26Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

27And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

28And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

29And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

34And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

35And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

37And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

40But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

43Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

46So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.