15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour. …
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)Here is, I. The fair and just demand which the tribes of Israel, now encamped, sent to the tribe of Benjamin, to deliver up the malefactors of Gibeah to justice, Jdg. 20:12 , 13 . If the tribe of Benjamin had come up, as they ought to have done, to the assembly, and agreed with them in their resolution, there would have been none to deal with but the men of Gibeah only, but they, by their absence,…
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