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      1;  The twelve captains for every several month.
     16;  The princes of the twelve tribes.
     23;  The numbering of the people is hindered.
     25;  David's several officers.

     * the chief fathers.
       The patriarchs, chief generals, or generals of brigade.  This
       enumeration is widely different from that of the preceding.
       In that, we have the order and course of the priests and
       Levites, in their ecclesiastical ministrations:  in this, we
       have the account of the order of the civil service, what
       related simply to the political state of the king and kingdom.
       Twenty-four persons, chosen out of David's worthies, each of
       whom had a second, were placed over 24,000; men, who all served
       a month at a time, in turn; and this was the whole of their
       service during the year, after which they attended to their
       own affairs.  Thus the king had always on foot a regular force
       of 24,000, who served without expense to him or the state, and
       were not oppressed by the service, which took up only a
       twelfth part of their time; and by this plan he could, at any
       time, bring into the field 12; times 24,000; or 288,000; fighting
       men, independently of the 12,000; officers, which made in the
       whole an effective force of 300,000; soldiers; and all these
       men were prepared, disciplined, and ready at a call, without
       the smallest expense to the state or the king.  These were,
       properly speaking, the militia of the Israelitish kingdom.

     * captains.
     # 13:1; Ex 18:25; De 1:15; 1Sa 8:12; Mic 5:2|
     * served.
     # 28:1; 2Ch 17:12-19; 26:11-13|
     * any matter.
     # 1Ki 5:14|
     * month.
     # 1Ki 4:7,27|