44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
44 Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.
44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.
44 Eighteen divisions of Benjaminites were wiped out, all their best fighters.
44 And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
44 That day 18,000 of Benjamin's strongest warriors died in battle.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 20:44
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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.