JUDGES 20:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.”
The five hundred Benjamites who escaped to the wilderness represented the small fraction of Benjamin's forces who survived the encirclement and massacre, with only a remnant preserving tribal survival through flight to inhospitable terrain. Their escape across rough country toward Rimmon, rather than toward other tribal territory, emphasizes their isolation and outsider status following their military defeat. This verse begins the transition from total war to the tragic aftermath of near-total destruction.
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