Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
      I. That those tribes that lived nearest brought the fewest-Judah but 6800 (1 Chronicles 12:24; 1 Chronicles 12:24), Simeon but 7100 (1 Chronicles 12:25; 1 Chronicles 12:25); whereas Zebulun, that lay remote, brought 50,000, Asher 40,000, and the two tribes and a half on the other side Jordan 120,000. Not as if the next adjacent tribes were cold in the cause; but they showed as much of their prudence in bringing few, since all the rest lay so near within call, as the others did of their zeal in bringing so many. The men of Judah had enough to do to entertain those that came from afar.