“And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.”
Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company. The military escort — chariots and horsemen — is the honor of state accorded to the burial procession. The application: the funeral procession that moves from Egypt toward Canaan is the largest in the biblical narrative — a state funeral for a covenant patriarch.
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