John Gill's Exposition on Judges 4:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, etc.] Or “therefore” he gathered them together, which might lie some in one place, and some in another, for the better quartering of the men that belonged to them: [even] nine hundred chariots of iron; and which, as before observed, are magnified by Josephus, and made to be three thousand; and all the people that [were] with him; his soldiers, Jabin’s army, of which he was captain, and are called a multitude, (<070407>Judges 4:7); and which, the above writer says f90, consisted of three hundred thousand foot, and ten thousand horse, besides the iron chariots: these he collected together, and brought with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles; the place where he resided with his army, (<070402>Judges 4:2); unto the river of Kishon; which was near Mount Tabor, the rendezvous of Barak and his men, (see <070406>Judges 4:6,7).

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