The national guard was organized with rotating divisions, each serving for a specific time. During the ninth month, the military leadership is entrusted to a commander named Abiezer the Anathothite, who is identified as a member of the tribe of Benjamin [ביאור שטיינזלץ].
The ancient scribal tradition preserves a rare feature regarding the recording of his tribal identity. While his affiliation is written in the text as a single continuous word, it is traditionally read aloud as two separate words. This unique textual phenomenon is highly unusual, appearing only fifteen times throughout the entire Bible [מנחת שי].