* the officers of the people.
   The {shoterim,} or officers, were different from the
   {shophetim,} who were the judges among the people.  The
   {shoterim} have been supposed to be subordinate officers,
   whose business it was to see the decisions of the {shophetim}
   carried into effect.  Calmet conjectures, that the {shoterim}
   here may have been the heralds of the army.

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