He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
      II. His concern for his neighbours. When he perceived them in tears, he asked, "What ails the people that they weep? Let me know, that, if it be a grievance which can be redressed, I may help them, and that, if not, I may weep with them." Good magistrates are in pain if their subjects are in tears.