34. Ten thousand chosen men. This was evidently the group who formed the ambush and who seem to have attacked Gibeah itself.
Knew not. Although the Benjamites recognized that they were having a hard battle, yet each one, busily engaged on his own front, did not perceive that their forces were completely surrounded and thus doomed to destruction.
With this and the following verse, the author interrupts the detailed description of the battle to state its final outcome, as if to relieve the reader’s concern.
