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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 20:46

Twenty and five thousand men. — Eighteen thousand killed in battle, ┼ 5,000 on the paved roads (mesilloth), ┼ 2,000 near Rimmon, ┼ 600 survivors, makes 25,600. But as the Benjamites were 26,700 (see Judges 20:15), either the total in Judges 20:15 is wrong, or we must make the much more natural supposition that 1,000 Benjamites, as against 40,000 Israelites (which would only be 1 to 36), had fallen in the two first battles.

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See also Judges 20:46 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    In Judges 20:35 the number given is 25,100. Judges 20:44 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 Judges 20:15, and...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 THE HORRIBLE WAR _ 1. The Levite's story (Judges 20:1)_ 2. The uprising (Judges 20:8) 3. The slaying of the Israelites (Judges 20:12) 4. Benjamin exterminated except six hundred men ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGES 20. THE OUTRAGE AVENGED.The congregation (LXX Synagô gç) is a post-exilic term. The words as one man suggest a unity of action such as was not secured till long after the time of the Judges. Th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    For the total here cf. on Judges 20:35. This and the preceding verse appear to be, not fragments from the B narrative, but editorial additions: the first part of Judges 20:45 is borrowed from Judges 2...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _The Defeat of the Benjamites Judges 20:24-48_ 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day, 25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ All which fell that day of Benjamin. Upon comparing this with Judges...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BENJAMITES The Levite recounts his wrongs to a full assemblage of the tribes, who decree punishment upon Benjamin. Their first two attacks are unsuccessful, but the third results...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 20 V1 Then all the *Israelites from Dan to Beersheba came to meet together. They also came from the area called Gilead. They all met at Mizpah, wher...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִי֩ כָל ־הַ נֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים מִ בִּנְיָמִ֗ן

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The action of the Levite served its purpose. The nation was stirred momentarily to its center. A great moral passion flamed out. Underneath all the degeneracy was a true stratum of religious convictio...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The other tribes called upon Benjamin to release to them the wicked men that they might be put to death in accord with the law (Deuteronomy 22:22). By refusing to release them, the rest of the tribe o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were (y) twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour. (y) Besides eleven hundred that had been slain in the previous b...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _War. The Scripture, and other authors of the greatest exactitude, sometimes use round numbers. (Calmet) --- An odd hundred (ver. 35, and 15.; Haydock) is here neglected. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we see that through the whole the victory was not doubtful. The Lord hereby taught Israel, who perhaps vaunted more upon the strength of their numbers, compared to Benjamin and Gibeah, than simpl...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO THAT ALL WHICH FELL THAT DAY OF BENJAMIN WERE TWENTY AND THOUSAND MEN,.... It is before said 25,100 Judges 20:35 here the one hundred are omitted, and the round number of thousands given, which is...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 46. _Twenty and five thousand._] Besides a thousand slain in th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Twenty and five thousand_ Besides the odd hundred expressed Judges 20:35; but here only the great number is mentioned, the less being omitted, as inconsiderable. Here are also a thousand more omitted...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Leuite in a generall assembly declareth his wrong. 8 The decree of the assembly. 12 The Beniamites being cited, make head against the Israelites. 18 The Israelites in two battels loose fourty...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor. This is a round number, the exact number included one hundred men more,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TWENTY AND FIVE THOUSAND, besides the odd hundred expressed JUDGES 20:35; but here only the great number is expressed, the less being omitted, as inconsiderable; which way of numbering is frequent in...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 20:46 fell H5307 (H8802) Benjamin H1144 day H3117 twenty-five H6242 H2568 thousand H505 men H376 drew...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty five eleph men that drew the sword. All these were men of valour.' Compare Judges 20:35. Twenty five of the twenty six military units were dest...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Civil war in which the Benjamites are punished. CHARACTERS: God, a Levite, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: We cannot expect the presence of God with us in our enterprises unless we seek it by humblin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Judges 20:11. _All the men of Israel were knit together._ Why had they not assembled against Micah and his chapel of gods? Then this and other evils might have been prevented. This was a just and nece...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The men of Israel turned again upon the children of BenJamin._ FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE It may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse such...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 20:1 Gibeah was a Benjaminite city, and so an assembly of all Israel came together at Mizpah to take action against Benjamin (vv. Judges 20:1). The Benjaminites, who apparently w...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE (Judges 20:1.) _HOMILETICS_ 1. _This cry was universal_ (Judges 20:1). “From Dan to Beershebah, with Gilead.” There was not a dissentient voice. 2. _They were in earnest_ (Ju...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JUDGES 20:18 THE HOUSE OF GOD. In this rendering the A.V. follows the Vulgate, which has _in domum Dei, hoc est, in Silo. _But the Septuagint has Βαιθὴλ, and all the ancient authorities,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now it had what he hoped it would have. It had a shock effect upon the tribes. They were horrified to get part of a torso, a leg, an arm, a head and they gathered together and this man told them the e...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 20:15; Judges 20:35...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Twenty and five thousand — Besides the odd hundred expressed Judges 20:35, but here only the great number is mentioned, the less being omitted, as inconsiderable. Here are also a thousand more omitted...

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