Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 11:8

8 And when he numbred them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand , and the men of Judah thirty thousand .

This great Terror drew so many forth: which is not so strange to him that knows what none deny, That the Land of Canaan contained vast Numbers of People in a little compass.

Who are numbred apart to their honour, to shew how readily they, to whom the Kingdom was promised, Gen. 49. 10. submitted to their King, though of another and far meaner Tribe; and how willing they were to hazard themselves for their Brethrens Rescue, although they might have excused themselves from the necessity of defending their own Country from their dangerous Neighbours the Philistines.