In addition to all the above there was a military presence.

For chariots see 41.43. Horsemen refers to men who rode horses. We may translate as in Good News Translation or say, for example, “soldiers riding in chariots and on horses.”

A very great company: great may express the size of the procession, its appearance, the rank of the people, or all of these. Most translations say something like “A big crowd of people went to that funeral.”

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .