And the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, saying, “Go, and you shall strike the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ with the edge of the sword, even the women and children.
And they said, “Which one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl did not come up to Mitspah to יהוה?” And see, no one had come to the camp from Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ to the assembly.
Curse Mĕroz,’ said a messenger of יהוה, ‘curse, curse its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of יהוה, to the help of יהוה among the mighty.’