The princes of the provinces are the governors of districts, many of whom may have fled to the capital as the hostile army advanced throug…

Who shall order the battle? —The marginal reading seems right, “Who shall give battle?,” “Who shall begin the fray?”

All the volunteers who were ready for the war—they were only seven thousand.

And Ahab said, by whom ?
&c.] Knowing he had no army with him sufficient to go out with against the Syrian army:

The proud Syrians were beaten, and the despised Israelites were conquerors. The orders of the proud, drunken king disordered his troops, and preven…