2 Chronicles 17:19 - Exposition

These waited ; Hebrew, הַמְשָׁרְתִים , plur. piel part. of שָׁרַת . The verse states that this enormous fivefold army, with its five princes (counting, in our corrupt text, one million one hundred and sixty thousand), was the king's Jerusalem standing army, while other separate regiments or bands of troops were spread through all Judah, where they might be most needed for defence.