Judges 20:46
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New International Version (©2011)
On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So that day the tribe of Benjamin lost 25,000 strong warriors armed with swords,

English Standard Version (©2001)
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 men who draw the sword; all these were valiant warriors.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All the Benjaminites who died that day were 25,000 armed men; all were warriors.

International Standard Version (©2012)
To sum up, the soldiers from the tribe of Benjamin who died that day totaled 25,000 men, all of them expert swordsmen and valiant soldiers.

NET Bible (©2006)
That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In all, 25,000 men from Benjamin who were armed with swords were killed that day. They were all experienced men.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

American King James Version
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

American Standard Version
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war.

Darby Bible Translation
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

English Revised Version
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

Webster's Bible Translation
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

World English Bible
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.

Young's Literal Translation
And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day -- 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and thousand men,.... It is before said 25,100 Judges 20:35 here the one hundred are omitted, and the round number of thousands given, which is no unusual way of speaking and writing; the whole army of Benjamin consisted of 26,700 of which 18,000 were slain in the field of battle, 5000 in the highways, and 2000 at Gidom, in all 25,000; and we may suppose one hundred as they were straggling in the road, or found in by places, or are not mentioned with either of the thousands for the sake of a round number, and six hundred fled to the rock Rimmon; as for the other 1000, it is highly probable, they fell in the two first battles, as Ben Gersom and Abarbinel rightly suppose; for it is not credible, that though they got such amazing victories, it was without the loss of men, and these are as few as well can be imagined. Jarchi thinks these thousand fled to the cities of Benjamin, and were slain when the Israelites entered them, as after related, Judges 20:48 which is much more probable than a tradition they have, that they went into the land of Romania, and dwelt there. Now all those that were slain were men

that drew the sword; soldiers, not husbandmen, artificers, &c. but armed men:

all these were men of valour; even those that fled, who chose rather to lose their lives than ask for quarter.

Wesley's Notes on the Bible

20:46 Twenty and five thousand - Besides the odd hundred expressed ver.35, but here only the great number is mentioned, the less being omitted, as inconsiderable. Here are also a thousand more omitted, because he speaks only of them who fell in that third day of battle.

Judges 20:46 Parallel Commentaries
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Defeat of the Benjamites
…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. 46So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor. 47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon, and stayed in the rock Rimmon four months.

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.
Judges 20:47 But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
1 Samuel 9:21 Saul answered, "But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?"