Judges 20:25-27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ Benjamin moved out against them from Gibeah the second day, and struck down eighteen thousand of the Israelites, all of them armed men. ²⁶ Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went back to Bethel and wept, sitting there before the Lord; they fasted that day until evening. Then they offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being before the Lord. ²⁷ And the Israelites inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,