Giudici 20:46

46 Così, il numero totale de’ Beniaminiti che caddero quel giorno fu di venticinquemila, atti a trar la spada, tutta gente di valore.

Giudici 20:46 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:46

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 no unusual way of speaking and writing; the whole army of Benjamin consisted of 26,700 of which 18,000 were slain in the field of battle, 5000 in the highways, and 2000 at Gidom, in all 25,000; and we may suppose one hundred as they were straggling in the road, or found in by places, or are not mentioned with either of the thousands for the sake of a round number, and six hundred fled to the rock Rimmon; as for the other 1000, it is highly probable, they fell in the two first battles, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel rightly suppose; for it is not credible, that though they got such amazing victories, it was without the loss of men, and these are as few as well can be imagined. Jarchi thinks these thousand fled to the cities of Benjamin, and were slain when the Israelites entered them, as after related, ( Judges 20:48 ) which is much more probable than a tradition they have, that they went into the land of Romania, and dwelt there. Now all those that were slain were men

that drew the sword;
soldiers, not husbandmen, artificers but armed men:

all these were men of valour;
even those that fled, who chose rather to lose their lives than ask for quarter.

Giudici 20:46 In-Context

44 Caddero, de’ Beniaminiti, diciottomila uomini, tutta gente di valore.

45 I Beniaminiti voltaron le spalle e fuggirono verso il deserto, in direzione del masso di Rimmon; e gl’Israeliti ne mieterono per le strade cinquemila, li inseguirono da presso fino a Ghideom, e ne colpirono altri duemila.

46 Così, il numero totale de’ Beniaminiti che caddero quel giorno fu di venticinquemila, atti a trar la spada, tutta gente di valore.

47 Seicento uomini, che avean voltato le spalle ed eran fuggiti verso il deserto in direzione del masso di Rimmon, rimasero al masso di Rimmon quattro mesi.

48 Poi gl’Israeliti tornarono contro i figliuoli di Beniamino, li sconfissero mettendoli a fil di spada, dagli abitanti delle città al bestiame, a tutto quel che capitava loro; e dettero alle fiamme tutte le città che trovarono.