Judges 21:10

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 F3 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 10.) , agree with the Hebrew text. This place, according to Bunting, to which this army was sent, was fifty two miles from Shiloh F4 Travels, &c.; p. 121. :

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, Judges 21:5 .