¹⁸ As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni.^[a](A) But his father named him Benjamin.^[b](B)

¹² The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you?^{(A) 13} Now turn those wicked men^(B) of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.^(C)”

But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.