1 Kings 20:15

Then he numbered [or reviewed (cf. Numbers 1:44 sqq.; Numbers 3:39-43 )] the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two [cf. 2 Chronicles 14:11 ; Psalms 33:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:30 , etc. LXX . διακόσια τριάκοντα . Theodoret remarks that by this band—230, as he understood it—Almighty God would destroy the hosts of thirty and two kings. The numbers may have been recorded because of the correspondency]: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand . [This number is of course to be understood, unlike that of Deuteronomy 19:18 , literally. And the context (cf. Deuteronomy 19:19 ) shows that this was the number of fighting men. But this small army can hardly fail to create surprise, especially if we compare it with the statistics of the soldiery of an earlier age ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ; 2 Chronicles 13:3 ; 2 Chronicles 14:8 ). It is true this was not strictly an army, but a garrison for the defence of the capital. But it looks very much as if, under the feeble rule of Ahab, the kingdom of Israel had become thoroughly disorganized. "The position of Jarchi is that of a true Rabbi, viz; that the 7000 were those who had not bowed the knee unto Baal ( 1 Kings 19:18 )," Bähr.]