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Green's Literal Translation

2 Chronicles 25:6

And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of war out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And for a hundred talents of silver, he got a hundred thousand fighting-men from Israel.
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 a son of twenty five years when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did the right in the eyes of Jehovah; only, not with a perfect heart. 3 And it happened, when the kingdom had been made strong to him, he killed his servants, those who had struck the king, his father. 4 But he did not kill their sons, but did as is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the sons, and the sons shall not die for the fathers; but they each shall die for his own sin. 5 And Amaziah gathered Judah, and made them stand, according to the house of their fathers, for commanders of the thousands, and for commanders of the hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin. And he numbered them from a son of twenty years and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen ones, going forth to battle, holding spear and shield. 6 And he hired a hundred thousand mighty men of war out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver. 7 But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for Jehovah is not with Israel, with all the sons of Ephraim. 8 But if you will go, do it ! Be strong for the battle, for God will cause you to stumble before the enemy; for God has power to help, and also to cause to stumble. 9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall I do for the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God said, Jehovah has more than this to give to you. 10 And Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their own place. And their anger burned fiercely against Judah, and they returned to their place in the heat of anger.

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
And Sarai, Abram's wife, took her slave-girl, Hagar, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 21:14
And Abraham started up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 25:1
And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
Genesis 25:2
And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:11
And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder.
Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14
and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis 25:15
Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Genesis 30:4
And she gave her slave-girl Bilhah to him for a wife. And Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 30:9
And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing. And she took Zilpah, her slave-girl, and gave her to Jacob for 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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