Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
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Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
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And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand…
Jdg 20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valour.
Ver. 44. And there fell of Benjamin.] To wit, In the battle.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain There fell, to wit, in the field, or battle.
There fell, to wit, in the field, or battle.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, unto…
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon,.... Which signifies pomegranate; perhaps it was in the form of one, and may be the same as in Sa1 14:2 where Saul is said to be under a pomegranate tree, or under Rimmon, the rock Rimmon, for that is said to be near Gibeah, as this was. There was a village in the times of Jerom called Remmon, fifteen miles from Jerusalem to the north (c), but could not be near this rock to have its name from thence; hither the rest of the army fled for shelter:
and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; who were scattered one from another, and as they were found in the highways, and picked up, they were slain one after another, just as ears of corn are gleaned one by one, after the harvest is got in, or as grapes in single berries, after the vintage is over:
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and pursued hard after them unto Gidom; which perhaps had its name from the cutting off of the Benjaminites there:
and slew two thousand men of them; that is, 2000 more besides the 5000 before mentioned.
(c) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. B.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain There fell - Namely, in the field, of battle.
There fell - Namely, in the field, of battle.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 20:44-45. There fell eighteen thousand — Namely, in…
Jdg 20:44-45. There fell eighteen thousand — Namely, in the field of battle. They gleaned of them five thousand — A metaphor from those who gather grapes or corn so cleanly and fully that they leave no relics for those who come after them. The Benjamites could not flee in a body, but scattered up and down the highways, where the Israelites picked up five thousand more and slew them.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 44. eighteen thousand men] Contrast the number in Jdg_20:35…
44. eighteen thousand men] Contrast the number in Jdg_20:35 from B. The first half of the v. may be assigned to A, and connects with Jdg_20:47; the second half has found its way here from Jdg_20:46, probably by a copyist’s error.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 44-46. And there fell, etc. The account in…
Vers. 44-46. And there fell, etc. The account in ver. 35, anticipating the details of the battle, had already given the gross number of casualties in the Benjamite army on this disastrous day as 25, 100. We now have the items of the account, viz., 18, 000 in the pursuit, in the open plain; 5000 in the highways, i.e. either the highways mentioned in ver. 31, or, as the expression gleaning rather intimates, the highways by which straggling bodies tried to reach any neighbouring cities after the great slaughter had taken place; and 2000 more who were making from Gidom; in all 25, 000, which is only 100 men short of the reckoning in ver. 35. The rock of Rimmon. See ver. 47, note. Gidom. Not elsewhere mentioned, nor identified with any modern name.
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