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.
Ver. 5. Thirty thousand chariots.] Armed with scythes and hooks. These were a great number. Sisera had but nine hundred, Pharaoh six hundred.
And people as the sand which is on the sea shore.] Josephus saith they were three hundred thousand footmen. All these were by God's all-disposing providence brought together to be broken in pieces. Isaiah 8:9 ; Isa 9:12