Joshua 11:4

And they went out "As the British chiefs were driven to the Land's End before the advance of the Saxon, so at this Land's End of Palestine were gathered for this last struggle, not only the kings of the north in the immediate neighbourhood, but from the desert valley of the Jordan south of the Sea of Galilee, from the maritime plain of Philistia, from the heights above Sharon, and from the still unconquered Jebus." Stanley, Lectures, 1:259.

as the sand "as the grauel that is in the brenk of the see," Wyclif. Comp. the description (a) of the hosts of the Midianites and Amalekites in the time of Gideon (Judges 7:12); and (b) of the Philistines in the time of Saul (1 Samuel 13:5).

with horses and chariots very many These now for the first time appear in Canaanite warfare, and "it was the use of these which probably fixed the scene of the encampment by the lake, along whose level shores they could have full play for their force."