2 Chronicles 25:6

6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

2 Chronicles 25:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 25:6

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 ^F5 were about five florins and a half to each soldier.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Not. in Targum in loc.

2 Chronicles 25:6 In-Context

4 But their children he did not put to death, but [did] according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

5 And Amaziah gathered Judah together and arranged them according to the fathers' houses, according to the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able for military service, that could handle spear and target.

6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the host of Israel go with thee; for Jehovah is not with Israel, [with] all the children of Ephraim.

8 But if thou wilt go, do [it]; be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for there is with God power to help and to cast down.