שופטים, פרק כ׳, פסוק מ״ד

The devastating aftermath of the civil war yields a staggering death toll for the tribe of Benjamin, with the casualties carefully recorded across the different locations of the fighting. The detailed accounting of the losses begins with the main battle, where an initial eighteen thousand men lost their lives directly on the primary battlefield [רש״י, מלבי״ם]. These fallen soldiers were not ordinary men, but rather mighty and heroic warriors [ביאור שטיינזלץ].

Following this massive loss in the central conflict, the remaining casualties are tracked through the subsequent stages of the retreat. As the fighters fled along the roads, another five thousand were killed, followed by an additional two thousand who fell at a location known as Gidom. Altogether, this breakdown brings the final count of the dead to twenty-five thousand. This total serves as a rounded figure of the more precise count of twenty-five thousand one hundred mentioned earlier in the account, focusing broadly on the thousands while simply omitting the hundreds [אברבנאל].