◄ 2 Chronicles 25:6 ►
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Good News Translation
In addition, he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel at a cost of about four tons of silver.

New Revised Standard Version
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Contemporary English Version
Amaziah also paid about 3.4 tons of silver to hire 100,000 soldiers from Israel.

New American Bible
He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.

2s

6d. and the talent, being

3000 shekels (see

Exodus 38:25,26 And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms. . . .

) at

375l., one hundred talents would amount to

37,500l; 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.

Context
Amaziah's Victories
5Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield. 6He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.7But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:5
Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:7
But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:

2 Chronicles 25:5
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