2 Chronicles 25:6

6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents^[a] of silver.

2 Chronicles 25:6 in Other Translations

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

6 He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.

6 He also paid about 7,500 pounds of silver to hire 100,000 experienced fighting men from Israel.

6 In addition he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel in the north at a cost of about four and a half tons of silver.

6 Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel.

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 Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”

5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.

6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

7 But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim.

8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 9