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2 Chronicles 25:6

And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Ephraim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mercenaries;   War-Peace;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Joash or Jehoash;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Joktheel;   Salt, Valley of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Army;   Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Hire;   Judah, Kingdom of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Yisra'el for one hundred talents of silver.
King James Version
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
English Standard Version
He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.
New Century Version
Amaziah also hired one hundred thousand soldiers from Israel for about seventy-five hundred pounds of silver.
New English Translation
He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.
Amplified Bible
He also hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
New American Standard Bible
He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
World English Bible
He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hyred also an hundreth thousand valiant men out of Israel for an hundreth talents of siluer.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
Berean Standard Bible
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Contemporary English Version
Amaziah also paid almost four tons of silver to hire one hundred thousand soldiers from Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
He also hired 100,000 strong, brave men from Isra'el for three-and-a-third tons of silver.
Darby Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Easy-to-Read Version
Amaziah also hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel. He paid 3 3/4 tons of silver to hire these soldiers.
George Lamsa Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Good News Translation
In addition, he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel at a cost of about four tons of silver.
Lexham English Bible
And he hired from Israel one hundred thousand strong, mighty warriors for one hundred talents.
Literal Translation
And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of war out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And out of Israel appoynted he an hundreth thousande stronge men of warre for an hundreth talentes of siluer.
American Standard Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hired also an hundred thousande strong fighting men out of Israel for an hundred talentes of siluer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
King James Version (1611)
Hee hired also an hundred thousand mightie men of valour, out of Israel, for an hundred talents of siluer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.
English Revised Version
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also for mede he hiride of Israel an hundrid thousynde of stronge men, for an hundrid talentis of siluer, that thei schulden fiyte ayens the sones of Edom.
Update Bible Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
New King James Version
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
New Living Translation
He also paid about 7,500 pounds of silver to hire 100,000 experienced fighting men from Israel.
New Life Bible
He also asked for the help of 100,000 powerful soldiers from Israel and paid them with silver weighing as much as 100 men.
New Revised Standard
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he hired out of Israel, a hundred thousand heroes of valour, for a hundred talents of silver.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
Revised Standard Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Young's Literal Translation
And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Contextual Overview

1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord. 3 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father. 4 But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. 5 Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover. 6 And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel. 7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim. 8 But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers. 9 Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this. 10 So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an hundred talents of silver: Estimating the shekel at 2s. 6d., and the talent, being 3,000 shekels - see Exodus 38:25, Exodus 38:26, at 375, one hundred talents would amount to 37,500.; which, divided among 100,000 men, quotes only 7s. 6d.; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 19:6 - a thousand

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.
Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 25:1
And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
Genesis 25:2
She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.
Genesis 25:11
Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.
Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam
Genesis 25:14
And Mishma and Dumah and Massa,
Genesis 25:15
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 30:9
When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel,.... The ten tribes, judging his own army not sufficient for his expedition against the Edomites he was meditating:

for one hundred talents of silver; which amounted to 35,300 pounds sterling, and according to Beckius e were about five florins and a half to each soldier.

e Not. in Targum in loc.


 
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