SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:21
Saliendo entonces de Gabaa los hijos de Benjamín, derribaron en tierra veintidós mil hombres de los hijos de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:21
Verse 21. Destroyed down to the ground-twenty-two thousand men.] That is, so many were left dead on the field of battle.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah , etc.] Which was their place of rendezvous, and which they came to defend; and in and about which they had stationed their whole army of 26,000 men: and destroyed down to the ground : killed dead upon the spot: of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men ; wanting but of their whole number, excepting the men of Gibeah, which was such a rebuff the Israelites did not expect, being engaged in so just a cause, and having such a numerous army. Several Jewish, writers think this was on account of their idolatry, that though they were very zealous to revenge corporeal adultery in the case of the Levite’s concubine, and to remove such iniquity from Israel; yet were not zealous to revenge and put away spiritual adultery or idolatry in the case of the Danites, who had set up the image of Micah, and so had spread idolatry not only in their own tribe, but throughout Israel; and therefore God took this opportunity to avenge his own quarrel, and rebuke them for their sin; and now did Benjamin raven as a wolf, according to Jacob’s prophecy, ( Genesis 49:27).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated. --The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, an their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they forme their resolves with too much haste and self-confidence. The eterna ruin of souls will be worse, and more fearful, than these desolation of a tribe __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויצאו 3318 בני 1121 בנימן 1144 מן 4480 הגבעה 1390 וישׁחיתו 7843 בישׂראל 3478 ביום 3117 ההוא 1931 שׁנים 8147 ועשׂרים 6242 אלף 505 אישׁ 376 ארצה׃ 776
