Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Thirty thousand chariots , and six thousand horsemen - There is no proportion here between the chariots and the cavalry. The largest armies ever brought into the field, even by mighty emperors, never were furnished with thirty thousand chariots.
I think sheloshim , Thirty, is a false reading for shalosh , Three. The Syriac has telotho alpin , and the Arabic thalathato alf , both signifying Three thousand; and this was a fair proportion to the horsemen. This is most likely to be the true reading.
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