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He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
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A Glimpse of a Divided Kingdom
Commentators note the separate counting of "Israel" (300,000) and "Judah" (30,000). This hints at the political reality that Judah often acted with some independence before David's reign. Scholars suggest Judah's smaller force was due to needing to guard their own borders against the Philistines or their lesser investment in a king from another tribe. Still, their presence showed a degree of unity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He numbered them - This was done to see who was absent ().
Bezek has been conjectured to be the name of a district rather than a town.…
19th Century
Anglican
Bezek. —Bezek was in the tribe of Issachar, in the plain of Jezreel, an open district, well suited for assembling the great host t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when he numbered them at Bezek Which was the place appointed to meet at, the same with that in (Judges 1:4) , …
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