And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
As lambs. This comparison is very common, Isaias xl. 11., and Ezechiel xxxiv. 2. But many translate the Hebrew "in Telaim. "St. Jerome reads Hebrew c, as, instead of b, in, with greater propriety. Septuagint and Josephus, "in Galgal "which in effect would have been the most proper place for rendezvous. (Calmet)
Footmen. Vatican Septuagint, "400,000 ranks or standards, (Josephus, men) and Juda 30,000."
