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Judges 20:46

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20:46That day twenty-five thousand89 sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.90

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  1. 89 The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44–46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [], ) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44–47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.
  2. 90 Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

All the Benjaminites who died that day were twenty-five thousand armed men; all were warriors.

NLTNew Living Translation

So that day the tribe of Benjamin lost 25,000 strong warriors armed with swords,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So all of Benjamin who fell on that day were twenty-five thousand sword-wielding men; all of these were able men.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.