“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out
As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them
Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.