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But the big part of the story that is relevant is the part where tribe that did’nt show up to help fight against the evildoers were punished big time also.

Ahhh. That story is in Judges 21, not Judges 19 and 20.

The commentary I read about slaughtering the city was that was a bad decision based on a bad oath.

Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who did not come up with the assembly to the Lord? . . . He shall surely be put to death: Here again Israel did something that seemed right at the time, but was actually a horror. They decided to slaughter a whole city of Israel, a city that refused to join with Israel in the fight against Benjamin.

i. This is doing one bad thing to make up for another. Israel instead should have repented of their foolish oath made at Mizpah, and they should have agreed to give their daughters as wives to the men of the tribe of Benjamin, renouncing the foolish vow of Judges 21:1.

Sincerely