1 Samuel 13:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thirty thousand chariots.— {Three thousand chariots. Syr. Arab.} {A thousand princes in chariots. Bucher. Praef.}

Houbigant also reads three thousand; a reading, says he, which Bochart has shewn to be just, for very good reasons; for it appears that the number of thirty thousand chariots was never heard of even in the largest armies.

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.