The Armies of Israel: Often Led by the King in Person
Source: TTT
1 Samuel 8:20
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 15:4, 5
So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. / Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
2 Samuel 12:29
So David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.
1 Kings 22:1–53
Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel. / However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to visit the king of Israel, / who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”