The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
JDG 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto
the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
JDG 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of
every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on
fire all the cities that they came to.
JDG 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall
not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
JDG 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till
even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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