And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest , and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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Gill's Exposition
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest,.... That were in their army; in the Vulgate Latin version it is only 10,000; but the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic…
Barnes' Notes
And the congregation sent 12,000 men - A thousand from each tribe; they followed the precedent of Num 31:4.
We may observe in these verses,
I. The ardent zeal which the Israelites had expressed against the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, as it was countenanced by the tribe of Benjamin. Occasion is here…
Cambridge Bible
twelve thousand men No doubt reckoning 1000 men from each tribe, cf. Num 31:4 f.; the writer forgot that Benjamin could not be counted.
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