2 Chronicles 25:6 - Easy To Read Version Amaziah also hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel. He paid 3 3/4 tons {\cf2\super [285]} of silver to hire those soldiers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver. American Standard Version (1901) He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver. Common English Bible He also hired one hundred thousand warriors from Israel for one hundred kikkars of silver. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he hired for pay from Israel one hundred thousand experienced men, for one hundred talents of silver. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver. |
The Ammonite people saw they had caused themselves to become hated enemies of David. Then Hanun and the Ammonite people used 75,000 pounds {\cf2\super [206]} of silver to buy chariots {\cf2\super [207]} and chariot drivers from Mesopotamia. {\cf2\super [208]} They also got chariots and chariot drivers from the towns of Maacah and Zobah in Aram.
Amaziah gathered the people of Judah together. He grouped them by families and he put generals and captains in charge of those groups. Those leaders were in charge of all the soldiers from Judah and Benjamin. All the men that were chosen to be soldiers were 20 years old and older. In all there were 300,000 skilled soldiers ready to fight with spears and shields.
But a man of God {\cf2\super [286]} came to Amaziah. The man of God said, “King, don’t let the army of Israel go with you. The Lord is not with Israel. The Lord is not with the people of Ephraim. {\cf2\super [287]}