SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:15
Entonces él reconoció los criados de los príncipes de las provincias, los cuales fueron doscientos treinta y dos. Luego reconoció todo el pueblo, todos los hijos de Israel, que fueron siete mil.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 20:15
Verse 15. Two hundred and thirty-two] These were probably the king's life or body guards; not all the militia, but two hundred and thirty of them who constituted the royal guard in Samaria. They were therefore the king's own regiment, and he is commanded by the prophet to put himself at their head. Seven thousand.] How low must the state of Israel have been at this time! These Jarchi thinks were the seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two , etc.] A very small number to go forth against so great an army as the host of the Syrians, and these raw unexperienced young men: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand ; which could never be the number of all the people in the land, nor even in the city of Samaria, who were able to bear arms; but it must mean such who were willing to go out to war on this occasion: and the number being just the same as of those that bowed not the knee to Baal, has led the Jewish commentators to conclude that these were the men that were numbered for war; but it is not likely that they were all in Samaria, or that none but those would go to war, though it must be owned the number is remarkable.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-21 - The proud Syrians were beaten, and the despised Israelites wer conquerors. The orders of the proud, drunken king disordered his troops, and prevented them from attacking the Israelites. Those tha are most secure, are commonly least courageous. Ahab slew the Syrian with a great slaughter. God often makes one wicked man a scourge to another.
Original Hebrew
ויפקד 6485 את 853 נערי 5288 שׂרי 8269 המדינות 4082 ויהיו 1961 מאתים 3967 שׁנים 8147 ושׁלשׁים 7970 ואחריהם 310 פקד 6485 את 853 כל 3605 העם 5971 כל 3605 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 שׁבעת 7651 אלפים׃ 505
