6
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver [a] to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, [b] Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
4
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
5
When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
6
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
7
So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
8
On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.
Footnotes 2
[a].
1,000 talents is approximately 37.7 tons or 34.2 metric tons of silver.
[b].
That is, Mesopotamia; Aram-naharaim means Aram of the two rivers, likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia.
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