Judges 20:44

44 Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.

Judges 20:44 in Other Translations

44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

44 That day 18,000 of Benjamin’s strongest warriors died in battle.

44 Eighteen divisions of Benjaminites were wiped out, all their best fighters.

44 There were 18,000 men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.

Judges 20:44 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:44

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.

Judges 20:44 In-Context

42 So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there.

43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

44 Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.

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.

46 On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 10:26; Psalms 76:5