Judges 20:35

35. Twenty and five thousand and a hundred The historian here gives the result of the battle, and then proceeds, in Judges 20:36-46, to give more of the details. It appears that eighteen thousand fell in battle, (Judges 20:44,) five thousand were gleaned along the highways, (Judges 20:45,) and that two thousand more were killed as they fled to Gidom. This makes exactly twenty-five thousand; but no account is given in this latter part of the other one hundred. So also no account at all is given of the number of Benjamites who fell in the previous battles. According to Judges 20:47 only six hundred men of Benjamin escaped; but before the first battle they numbered twenty-six thousand seven hundred. Judges 20:15. Consequently twenty-six thousand one hundred were killed and missing in the war. The historian records twenty-five thousand one hundred killed on this last day of battle; the other one thousand, not accounted for, probably fell in the battles of the previous days, for it is not supposable that the Benjamites killed twenty-two thousand on one day (Judges 20:21) and eighteen thousand on another without any loss to themselves.