Jueces 20:15

15 En total, de toda la tribu de Benjamín, llegaron a Guibeá veintiséis mil guerreros armados con espadas, los cuales se sumaron a los setecientos guerreros selectos que vivían allí.

Jueces 20:15 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:15

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of
the cities
All that they could muster up, and gather together out of their several cities, were no more man than

twenty and six thousand men that drew the sword
able bodied men fit for war, and expert in it:

beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred
chosen men
young, stout, and strong, and in all but 26,700; and what are these to an army of 400,000 men, or however 360,000 that came up against Gibeah, while 40,000 were employed in getting provisions for them? Josephus ^F7 makes the number of the Benjaminites still less, no more than 25,600, led thereunto by an later account, that 25,000 Benjaminites were slain in the third and last battle, and only six hundred escaped to a rock for safety, not considering that 1000 men may well be supposed to be lost in the two first battles; for it would be strange indeed that they should lose none in two engagement with so large an army; the same error is committed in the Vulgate Latin version, which makes them no more than 25,000; with which agrees the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint version: though that, according to the Vatican exemplar, has but 23,000. The numbers in the Hebrew text are no doubt the right.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 10.

Jueces 20:15 In-Context

13 Entréguennos a esos hombres malvados, a esos perturbadores de Guibeá, para que los ejecutemos y así purifiquemos a Israel de semejante maldad».
Pero los de Benjamín no quisieron escuchar.

14 En cambio, salieron de sus ciudades y se juntaron en Guibeá para pelear contra los israelitas.

15 En total, de toda la tribu de Benjamín, llegaron a Guibeá veintiséis mil guerreros armados con espadas, los cuales se sumaron a los setecientos guerreros selectos que vivían allí.

16 Entre las tropas selectas de Benjamín había setecientos hombres zurdos, capaces de tirar una piedra con la honda y acertar en un cabello sin errar el blanco.

17 Israel, a su vez, tenía cuatrocientos mil soldados con experiencia en la guerra, armados con espadas, sin contar a los guerreros de Benjamín.