The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
In  Joshua 18:21-28, there is a list of the twenty-six cities of the Benjamites, not including all of their villages, and the mobilization of 26,000 men from Benjamin is altogether reasonable.  We reject the nonsense about these figures being "exaggerated."  Modern commentators, knowing absolutely nothing about the situation, have carved for themselves a very unenviable position in contradicting the plain statements of God's Word.