^{8 Ref} Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:

^{9 Ref} But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;

¹⁰ And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

¹¹ So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.