Or what king, when he goes to battle against another king, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?
The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who will go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” YHWH said, “Judah first.”
The children of Israel went up and wept before YHWH until evening, and they asked of YHWH, saying, “Should we go up again in battle against the sons of Benjamin our brothers?” YHWH said, “Y’all must go up against them.”
Everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Y’all think about it and discuss it, and then y’all must speak!”