Judges 21:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ So the ·whole group of Israelites [assembly; congregation] sent twelve thousand ·soldiers [^Lmen, sons of strength] to Jabesh Gilead to kill the people with ·their swords [the edge of the sword], even the women and children.

¹¹ “This is what you must do: Kill every man in Jabesh Gilead and every ·married woman [^Lwoman who has known the bed of a male].”^{[a] 12} The soldiers found four hundred young ·unmarried women [virgins; Num. 31:17–18] among the residents of Jabesh Gilead, so they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.