Judges 20:44
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New International Version (©2011)
Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
That day 18,000 of Benjamin's strongest warriors died in battle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
There were 18,000 men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.

International Standard Version (©2012)
That's how 18,000 men from the tribe of Benjamin fell in battle, all of whom were valiant soldiers.

NET Bible (©2006)
Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There were 18,000 experienced men from Benjamin who died in battle.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

American King James Version
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

American Standard Version
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that were slain in the same place were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant soldiers.

Darby Bible Translation
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

English Revised Version
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

World English Bible
There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.

Young's Literal Translation
And there fall of Benjamin eighteen thousand men -- the whole of these are men of valour;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 44-46. - And there fell, etc. The account in ver. 35, anticipating the details of the battle, had already given the gross number of casualties in the Benjamite army on this disastrous day as 25,100. We now have the items of the account, viz., 18,000 in the pursuit, in the open plain; 5000 in the highways, i.e. either the highways mentioned in ver. 31, or, as the expression gleaning rather intimates, the highways by which straggling bodies tried to reach any neighbouring cities after the great slaughter had taken place; and 2000 more who were making from Gidom; in all 25,000, which is only 100 men short of the reckoning in ver. 35. The rock of Rimmon. See ver. 47, note. Gidom. Not elsewhere mentioned, nor identified with any modern name.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men,.... Just the number they had slain of Israel in the second battle. This is the number of them that were slain when Israel turned upon them, and by that time they got to the east of Gibeah; afterwards 5000 more were slain on the highways, and 2000 near Gidom, as after related:

all these were men of valour; as appears by three times facing and engaging with the army of Israel, so vastly superior to them, and twice beating them.

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Defeat of the Benjamites
…43Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and stepped them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sun rise. 44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor. 45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. …

Judges 20:43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
Judges 20:45 As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.