Judges 20:45

And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel + 20:45 Or, cut off as stragglers. Gr. gleaned, or picked straws.picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gedan, and they smote of them two thousand men.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

In Context

44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these were men of might.

46And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.

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Cross References

Judges 21:13And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Remmon, and invited them to make peace.

Zechariah 14:10compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's wine-presses,

Matthew Henry on Judges 20:27-48

The Defeat of the Benjamites. ( b. c. 1410.) 26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord , and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord . 27 And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord , (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to… Read the whole commentary →

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