He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Bezec, where Adonibezec had reigned, (Judges 1. Menochius.) near the place where they crossed the Jordan, a little below Scythopolis, to go to Jabes, which was about thirty miles distant. Calmet.—Thousand. Josephus makes the army consist of 770,000, who were collected at Bala. Septuagint have 600,000 of Israel; and they agree with this author, in allowing also 70,000 to Juda alone. But this is a larger army than what came out of Egypt, and exceeds the limits of probability, unless all assembled, as the preceding verse seems ( Bible.) to insinuate; ( Menochius.) and we find far greater numbers, 2 Chronicles 13:3, 17, if no ( Bible.) error have there crept in. Kennicott.