And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
We will take ten men ... The soldiers in the Jewish army seem to have we been divided into tens, who should lodge under the same tent, and mess together, as is highly probable, from every tenth man's being appointed to fetch or prepare provision for his fellow-soldiers. Nay, if we are to explain the sacred history of the Jews by modern Eastern arrangements, we must suppose that the appointment of every tenth man in the congregation of Israel was not so much to collect food for the use of their companions in that expedition as to dress it, to serve it up, and to wait upon, them in eating it, (Harmer, 3:; 'Observations,' 64:4; 'Observations,'
ix.)