Joshua 6:13

The rereward (see Joshua 5:9 ). Literally, the gathering together and then the body of troops which collects the stragglers, the rear guard, as in Numbers 10:25 ; Isaiah 52:12 ; Isaiah 58:8 . Calvin renders here by quia cogebat agmen. But the LXX . and Vulgate render by ὁ λοιπὸς ὄχλος and vulgus reliquum. So Luther, der Haufe. The LXX ; however, in Isaiah 58:9 translates the same word by οὐραγοῦντες , i.e; " qui extremum agmen ducunt, et quasi caudam efficiunt " (Rosenmuller). The word is not the same as that translated rereward in 1 Samuel 29:2 , the only other place where our version has "rereward," where there can be no question of the rendering being correct, since the literal meaning there is the hindermost.