The six hundred survivors who found refuge on the rock of Rimmon represented Benjamin's remnant, preserved through flight to defensible natural stronghold rather than through any capacity to continue military resistance. Their isolation in the wilderness, separated from their tribal lands and towns, established the conditions for the subsequent narrative resolution in Judges 21. This verse preserves Benjamin's survival as a tragic fragment, eliminating their military threat while establishing the conditions for the tribe's near-extinction and desperate need for the marriages that chapter 21 addresses.

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