And they went out,.... The several kings and people sent to; these went out from the places they inhabited:they and all their hosts with them; the kings of those several places, with their armies:much people, even as the sand that [is] upon the seashore in multitude; a proverbial expression, to denote an exceeding great number:with horses and chariots very many; being supplied with horses from Egypt, and their chariots were chariots of iron; see Jud 4:3; Josephus gives us the number of this great army, and says it consisted of three hundred thousand footmen, ten thousand horse, and thirty thousand chariots; some copies read only twenty thousand; and these chariots were armed with iron hooks or scythes, to cut down men as they drove along, and so were very terrible.
Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect.