1 Kings 20:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

He numbered all the men of Israel All in Samaria and the neighbourhood that were fit to go out to war; all except those whom their age, or infirmity, or other sufficient causes excused; but certainly not all the men of war in Israel, who must have been far more than seven thousand.

1 Kings 20:15

15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.