all of you armed] Which is not to be understood universally for all the able warriours of the two Tribes and an halfe; but that all those that went should goe armed, and there went about fourty thousand, Joshua 4:3. which was not halfe of their Militarie number, for the whole was one hundred and ten thousand fighting men, Numb. 26. the rest stayed with the women and children to guard them, and keepe their portion from being surprised, and to repaire some Cities, and build others.