as Grashppers] An hyperbolicall expression of their multitude, their army consisting of a hundred and thirty five thousand able fighting men, besides the rascallity which followed the camp, as appeareth, Chap. 8. 10.
without number] Heb. i. e. So many, that they were hardly to be numbred. So Chap. 7. 12. whereas a small company is expressed by the contrary phrase, That they are men of number. See Genesis 34:30.