All the Congregation] The parts of the prey were made equall, the parties betwixt whom they were divided very unequall; for a few wariers had as much as all that staid from the warre, because they did hazard their lives in the Battell, which the others did not; afterwards David set downe an order of division of the spoyles of warre, which was, that they that tarried with the stuffe to watch and guard it, should have an equall share with those that fought, 1 Samuel 30:24. and the reason is, (which much varieth the case and course he resolved on) for that such as stay so neere the enemy as the carriages, are exposed to the perill of their lives, as well as those that goe forth to battell; and when they have an enemy more covetous then valorous, they are in greater danger then they that manage the warre.