2 Chronicles 25:6

6 He hired also 100,000 * valiant warriors out of Israel for one 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 However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin."

5 Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers' households under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he took a census of those from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 300,000 choice men, able to go to war and handle spear and shield.

6 He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one 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 the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim.

8 "But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down."