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45 The rest[a] turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites[b] caught[c] 5,000 of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels[d] all the way to Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:45 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Judges 20:45 tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Judges 20:45 tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.
  4. Judges 20:45 tn Heb “stuck close after them.”

45 As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,(A) 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.

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