Thirty thousand chariots, &c. — Most of them, we may suppose, carriages for their baggage, not chariots of war, tho' all their allies were joined with them.
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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.