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Joshua 1:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the officers of the people: The shoterim:, or officers, were different from the shophetim:, who were the judges among the people. The shoterim: have been supposed to be subordinate officers, whose business it was to see the decisions of the shophetim: carried into effect.

Calmet conjectures, that the shoterim: here may have been the heralds of the army.

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