Judges 21:10
Ver. 10. And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest,.... That were in their army; in the Vulgate Latin version it is only 10,000; but the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and Josephus {c}, agree with the Hebrew text. This place, according to Bunting, to which this army was sent, was fifty two miles from Shiloh {d}:
and commanded them, saying; these were the orders they gave them, when they marched out:
go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children; which it seems was according to the oath they had made, Jud 21:5.
{c} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 10.) {d} Travels, &c. p. 121.