Caught a young man. — Comp. Judges 1:24.
Described. — Marg. writ, i.e.: the boy wrote down their names (LXX., apegrapsato; Vulg., descripsit).
Threescore and seventeen. — Perhaps a sort of local Sanhedrin of Seventy (Numbers 11:16), with their presiding sheykhs. The number shows that Succoth was a place of considerable importance.