1 Kings 20:25
And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
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Gill's Exposition
And number thee an army like the army that thou hast lost,.... Raise an army of an equal number, which they supposed he was able to do:
horse for horse and chariot for chariot; as many horses and…
We have here an account of another successful campaign which Ahab, by divine aid, made against the Syrians, in which he gave them a greater defeat than in the former. Strange! Ahab idolatrous and yet…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and number thee an army Here we have a different verb from that in 15 and in 26, 27. Here the operation is one of numbering, making the force tally exactly in each arm with that which had been…