Judges 21:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ Early the next morning, the Israelites built an altar and offered sacrifices to please the Lord and to ask his blessing.^{[a] 5} Then they asked each other, “Did any of the tribes of Israel fail to come to the place of worship? We made a sacred promise that anyone who didn't come to the meeting at Mizpah would be put to death.”

⁶ The Israelites were sad about what had happened to the Benjamin tribe, and they said, “One of our tribes was almost wiped out.