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Louis Segond

Juges 20:17

On fit aussi le dénombrement des hommes d'Israël, non compris ceux de Benjamin, et l'on en trouva quatre cent mille tirant l'épée, tous gens de guerre.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gibeah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Four;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
On fit aussi le dénombrement des hommes d'Israël, sans compter ceux de Benjamin, et il s'en trouva quatre cent mille hommes tirant l'épée, tous gens de guerre.
Darby's French Translation
Et les hommes d'Israël furent dénombrés, sauf Benjamin: quatre cent mille hommes tirant l'épée, tous gens de guerre.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et les hommes d'Israël furent [tous] dénombrés, excepté ceux de Benjamin, et il s'en trouva quatre cent mille hommes tirant l'épée, tous gens de guerre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

four hundred: Judges 20:2, Numbers 1:46, Numbers 26:51, 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 15:4, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 2 Chronicles 17:14-18

Reciprocal: Judges 8:10 - fell an hundred Judges 20:22 - encouraged Hosea 10:9 - the battle

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin,.... Who did not join them in this affair, but opposed them,

were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: see

Judges 20:9

all these were men of war; inured to it, skilful and courageous.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Comparing the numbers here with those in Numbers 1:0; Numbers 26:0, it is seen that in the case both of the Benjamites and the Israelites the numbers are diminished by about one-third, i. e., they appear as about two-thirds only of what they were at the last numbering in the plains of Moab. This diminution seems to indicate disturbed and harassing times. With this agrees the mention of the cities, as containing the whole Benjamite population. The inference is that the open country and unwalled villages were not safe, but that the Benjamites kept the Canaanites in subjection only by dwelling in fortified towns.

Judges 20:16

See Judges 3:15, and note. In the Septuagint and Vulgate the 700 chosen men of Gibeah are represented as the seven hundred left-handed slingers.


 
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