Comparing the numbers here with those in Numbers 1 and Numbers 26, it is evident that in the case of both the Benjamites and the Israelites, their …

Out of the cities. —They could only live in cities, because the Jebusites still held Jerusalem, and the Canaanites around them wer…

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of
the cities
All that th…

The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolv…