set] Heb. bound together. four hundred thousand] Both armies, being all of the children of Israel, amounted to twelve hundred thousand, and all of them valiant men: had they been as brethren united, they had been the greatest host we read of by expresse number assembled together in the field. See Chap. 14. 9. Indeed there is, in Davids time, mention made of fifteen hundred thousand, and threescore and ten thousand, that drew sword, besides Levi and Benjamin, which were not counted among them (1 Chronicles 21:5-6.) but these were not all drawn out into the field together. See on chap. 17. 14.