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 ( Judges 4:3 ) ; Josephus F26 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.