SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:15
Y fueron contados en aquel tiempo los hijos de Benjamín de las ciudades, veintiséis mil hombres que sacaban espada, sin los que moraban en Gabaa, que fueron por cuenta setecientos varones escogidos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 20:15
Verse 15. Twenty and six thousand] Some copies of the Septuagint have twenty-three thousand, others twenty-five thousand. The Vulgate has this latter number; the Complutensian Polyglot and Josephus have the same.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities , etc.] 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 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.
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
ויתפקדו 6485 בני 1121 בנימן 1144 ביום 3117 ההוא 1931 מהערים 5892 עשׂרים 6242 ושׁשׁה 8337 אלף 505 אישׁ 376 שׁלף 8025 חרב 2719 לבד 905 מישׁבי 3427 הגבעה 1390 התפקדו 6485 שׁבע 7651 מאות 3967 אישׁ 376 בחור׃ 970
