thirty thousand... six, &c. Multiples of six. See App-10.
as the sand, &c. Figure of speech Parcemia. App-6.
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1 Samuel 13:5
5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.