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Judges 21:10

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest,.... That were in their army; in the Vulgate Latin version it is only 10,000; but the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and Josephus , agree with the Hebrew text.

This place, according to Bunting, to which this army was sent, was fifty two miles from Shiloh :and commanded them, saying; these were the orders they gave them, when they marched out:go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children; which it seems was according to the oath they had made, Jud 21:5.

Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 10.) Travels, &c. p.

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