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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.