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.
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Gill's Exposition
But six hundred men,.... Who were all that were left of 26,700
turned and fled to the wilderness; turned out of the highway or common road, and being swift of foot, got to a wilderness; what…
Barnes' Notes
In Jdg 20:35 the number given is 25,100. Jdg 20:44-46 give the details of the loss on that day: 18,000, 5,000, and 2,000; in all 25,000. But as the Benjamites numbered 26,700 men Jdg 20:15, and 600…
We have here a full account of the complete victory which the Israelites obtained over the Benjamites in the third engagement: the righteous cause was victorious at last, when the managers of it…
Cambridge Bible
For the total here cf. on Jdg 20:20. This and the preceding verse appear to be, not fragments from the B narrative, but editorial additions: the first part of Jdg 20:20 is borrowed from Jdg 20:20, the…