So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
Ver. 19. And the army which followed them,] viz., Those seven thousand, 1Ki 20:15 which Pellican saith were godly, confiding men; and Martyr thinketh they were the seven thousand that had not bowed their knees to Baal. Piety is the ground of all true valour.