Chapter Twenty-Three/The Second Woe - Armies of Cavalry - Two Myriads of Myriads

 How can there be two myriads of myriads of this cavalry? A myriad is literally 10,000. So two myriads of myriads would come to 200 million. Happily, there are now millions of Kingdom proclaimers, but their number is far short of hundreds of millions! Remember, though, Moses' words at Numbers 10:36: "Do return, O Jehovah, to the myriads of thousands of Israel. (Compare Genesis 24:60) That would mean literally, 'Do return to the tens of millions of Israel.' Israel, however, numbered only about two or three million in Moses' day. What, then, was Moses saying? No doubt he had in mind that the Israelites should be unnumbered as "the stars of the heavens and like the grains of the sand that are on the seashore," rather than be counted. (Genesis 22:17; 1 Chronicles 27:23) So he used the word for "myriad" to indicate a large but unspecified number. Thus, The New English Bible renders this verse: "Rest Lord of the countless thousands of Israel." This agrees with a second definition of the word for "myriad" found in Greek  and Hebrew dictionaries: "an innumerable multitude," a "multitude." The New Thayer's

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament; Gesenius' A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. translated by Edward Robinson. 

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