John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 11:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they went out, etc.] The several kings and people sent to; these went out from the places they inhabited: they and all their hosts with them; the kings of those several places, with their armies: much people, even as the sand that [is] upon the seashore in multitude; a proverbial expression, to denote an exceeding great number: with horses and chariots very many; being supplied with horses from Egypt, and their chariots were chariots of iron; (see <070403>Judges 4:3); Josephus f22 gives us the number of this great army, and says it consisted of three hundred thousand footmen, ten thousand horse, and thirty thousand chariots; some copies read only twenty thousand; and these chariots were armed with iron hooks or scythes, to cut down men as they drove along, and so were very terrible.

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