Judges 20:15 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 20:15

On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

BSB

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ASV

And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

KJV

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Comparing the numbers here with those in Num. 1; 26, it is seen that in the case both of the Benjamites and the Israelites the numbers are diminished by about one-third, i. e., they appear as about two-thirds only of what they were at the last numbering in the plains of Moab. This diminution seems to indicate disturbed and harassing times. With this agrees the mention of the cities, as containing the whole Benjamite population.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּתְפָּֽקְדוּ֩	vai.yit.pa.ke.Du	and they were mustered	H6485 →
בְנֵ֨י	ve.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
בִנְיָמִ֜ן	vin.ya.Min	Benjamin	H1144 →
בַּיּ֤וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַהוּא֙	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים	me.He.'a.Rim	from the cities	H5892 →
עֶשְׂרִ֨ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
וְשִׁשָּׁ֥ה	ve.shi.Shah	and six	H8337 →
אֶ֛לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
אִ֖ישׁ	'ish	man	H376 →
שֹׁ֣לֵֽף	Sho.lef	[who] drew	H8025 →
חָ֑רֶב	Cha.rev	a sword	H2719 →
לְ֠בַד	Le.vad	<to> apart	H905 →
מִיֹּשְׁבֵ֤י	mi.yo.she.Vei	from [the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
הַגִּבְעָה֙	ha.giv.'Ah	<the> Gibeah	H1390 →
הִתְפָּ֣קְד֔וּ	hit.Pa.ke.Du	[who] they were mustered	H6485 →
שְׁבַ֥ע	she.Va'	seven	H7651 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
אִ֥ישׁ	'ish	man	H376 →
בָּחֽוּר׃	ba.Chur	chosen	H977 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 20:35
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
leads to
- Judges 20:44–46
  And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 20:5
  the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Through
Judges 20:25
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
leads to
- Judges 20:21
  And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
- Romans 11:33
  O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Romans 2:5
  But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Romans 3:5
  But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
Through
Numbers 1:37
those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
leads to
- Numbers 26:41
  These were the clans of Benjamin, and their registration numbered 45,600.
- Numbers 2:23
  and his division numbers 35,400.