“This is what you must do: Kill every man in Jabesh Gilead and every married woman.”
They fought the Midianites as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every Midianite man.
We captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed them, as well as the men, women, and children. We left no one alive.
The soldiers found four hundred young unmarried women in Jabesh Gilead, so they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.