Note 416 — Chapter VI · THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY
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As the Hebrew netsîb signifies a ‘governor’ as well as a ‘fortified post’ or ‘garrison,’ many writers have maintained that the netsîb in ‘the Hill of God’ at Gibeah was the Philistine official. But Jonathan would not have required a thousand men in order to destroy a single official and the few soldiers who might have been with him.