Judges 20:13
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
Gibeah of Benjamin lay opposite the road past Mizpeh toward Jerusalem, within an hour's walk of Jerusalem. The verse belongs to the account of the crime at Gibeah, the disgraceful murder of the Levite's concubine there. Israel demanded that Benjamin surrender the guilty men of Gibeah, but the whole tribe refused and identified with the perpetrators, putting tribal loyalty above justice. Israel's action that followed nearly resulted in the extermination of the tribe of Benjamin.
The closing chapters of Judges around the verse record Israel's backsliding into a low state and condition in a fearfully checkered time before the call of Samuel the prophet, followed by disgrace and punishment. The verse illustrates how clannishness can outweigh justice, but sin is never excused. That low condition stands in mighty contrast to the miracles and teaching of Christ in Luke, yet both speak of the goodness and mercy of God.