They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord

 Judges 20:18-48

Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.  And the Israelites inquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?”

The Lord responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”

On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.

When the Benjamites refuse to hand over their fellow tribesmen the men of Gibeah civil war results. The outcome is the near-extinction of Benjamin and great national grief.

Why?

Even Israelite are numerous, four hundred thousand swordsmen. Benjamite has twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns and seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah. The victory is not the number or strength of swordsmen. But belong to those who honor the name of the Lord.

The victory got after Israelite fasted them the whole day and present burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings to the Lord.

For both of them forget the Lord for a while. So a little event induced civil war.

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第一次問誰去？沒問使否能去？妾是猶大人。自以為正義之師，被神修剪

第二次可以去，還是打敗。可以行不表示神同在。

第三次非尼哈與約櫃在，以色列人悔改，這時可以成為正義之師。神說當去。是神吩咐他們去。

內鬥自以為義，攻擊別人，先傷到自己。

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How?

Victory belongs to those who honor the name of the Lord!