And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
Ver. 2. And the chief of all the people.] Heb., The corners of all the people: for the chieftains and rulers bear up the people, and hold them together, as the corner stones do the whole building, which else would soon shatter and fall to ruin. a See the like in Zephaniah 3:6. Diodat rendereth it, the cantons.
a Ut anguli in domo, sunt primates in populo. - Vat.