And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
And we will take ten men of an hundred, throughout all the tribes of Israel,.... Excepting that of Benjamin which was not with them, not any of them:
and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand…
Barnes' Notes
In order to make it possible for the force of Israel to keep the field, and do to the men of Gibeah what their wickedness deserved, every tenth man (40,000 in all) was appointed to find provisions for…
Here is, I. A general meeting of all the congregation of Israel to examine the matter concerning the Levite's concubine, and to consider what was to be done upon it, Jdg 20:1, Jdg 20:2. It does not…
Cambridge Bible
ten men … ten thousand) All this merely amounts to -one man in ten"; 40,000 are to forage for the 360,000. We are reminded of the circumstantial diffuseness of P, e.g. Num 1:2; Num 1:20; Num 1:22…