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as one man

This simile speaks of the group as acting as a single person. It refers to a group of who people do everything together in the same way. AT: "as if they were a single man" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)

from Dan to Beersheba

This refers to the land as a whole. AT: "from all the eleven tribes" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism)

God—400,000 men on foot

"God and also 400,000 regular soldiers came"

ready to fight

"capable of going to war." They were not going to fight each other.

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