These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
We have here a further account of Jehoshaphat's great prosperity and the flourishing state of his kingdom. I. He had good interest in the neighbouring princes and nations. Though he was not perhaps so great a soldier as David (which might have made him their terror), nor so great a scholar as Solomon (which might have made him their oracle), yet the fear of the...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 17:10-19
These waited on the king,.... Not this vast number of men at one time, but in course, as David's military men waited on him, Ch1 27:1 or each of these captains, with a proper number of men under them detached from the body; and they were all ready to obey the king's orders whenever he should have occasion for them: besides those whom the king...
These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah. (g) That is, they were at his ordinary guard.