The Israelites anticipated a difficult and lengthy military campaign. So they set apart 10 percent of the army for non-combat duties, namely, to keep the combat troops supplied with food, so that at no time would they falter on the frontlines.
The Israelites anticipated a difficult and lengthy military campaign. So they set apart 10 percent of the army for non-combat duties, namely, to keep the combat troops supplied with food, so that at no time would they falter on the frontlines.
10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”