21 The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.
21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
21 The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.
21 But the Benjaminites poured out of Gibeah and devastated twenty-two Israelite divisions on the ground.
21 Then the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.
21 But Benjamin's warriors, who were defending the town, came out and killed 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 20:21
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The tribe of Benjamin nearly extirpated.
The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolves with too much haste and self-confidence. The eternal ruin of souls will be worse, and more fearful, than these desolations of a tribe.