Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 21:10

"And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones." — Judges 21:10 (ASV)

Twelve thousand men. —The Vulgate has 10,000, but it is doubtless meant to imply that each tribe sent a thousand valiant men (Genesis 47:6, and elsewhere), as in the war against the Midianites, where Balaam was slain and Phinehas had been present (Numbers 31:6).