^17 (A)Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man ^[a]intimately.

⁷ He took a yoke of oxen and ^(A)cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “^(B)Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out ^(C)as one man.