And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people,.... By reciting what the anointed of war said unto them, and by speeches of their own framing, to encourage to the…
Barnes' Notes
The meaning is that the “officers” should then subdivide the levies, and appoint leaders of the smaller divisions thus constituted.
Israel was at this time to be considered rather as a camp than as a kingdom, entering upon an enemy's country, and not yet settled in a country of their own; and, besides the war they were now…
Cambridge Bible
they shall appoint They, not necessarily the officersof the previous clause, but indefinite: those whose duty it is to appoint, or the people as a whole. Cp. 1Ma 3:55 f.
captains of hosts The chiefs…