Judges 21:8-12 ▼

8 They said, |What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?| Look, no one came to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

9 For when the people were numbered, look, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

10 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, |Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a man, but the virgins you are to keep alive.| And they did so.

12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.