⁵ The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up with the assembly to the Lord?” ^(A)For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who had not come up to the Lord at Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

⁸ And they said, “What one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord?” And, in fact, no one had come to the camp from ^(A)Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

¹⁰ So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, ^(A)“Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.