Judges 21:10 meaning and explanation
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
Judges 21:10, Berean Standard Bible
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The Israelite assembly at Mizpah had sworn to punish any tribe that skipped the gathering, and Jabesh-gilead had sent no one. So the congregation sends twelve thousand fighting men with orders to devote the town to destruction, a herem, the same total destruction commanded against the Canaanites.
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