15 And the sons of Benjamin number themselves on that day; out of the cities 'are' twenty and six thousand men drawing sword, apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah, 'who' numbered themselves, seven hundred chosen men;

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 20:15

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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.