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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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the officers of the people: The shoterim, or officers, were different from the shophetim, who were the judges among the people. The shoterim have been supposed to be subordinate officers, whose business it was to see the decisions of the shophetim carried into effect. Calmet conjectures, that the shoterim here may have been the heralds of the army. Jos 1:10 Joshua 1:11
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