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1 Chronicles 19:6

in 1 Chronicles 19

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

KJV

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria–maachah, and out of Zobah.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 19

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia - These are not mentioned in the parallel place in Samuel; probably they did not arrive till the Ammonites and their other allies were defeated by the Israelites in the first battle.

This site's exposition

sent a thousand talents of silver

on 1 Chronicles 19:6-7

Where Samuel names Beth-rehob, Zoba, Ishtob and the king of Maacah as the hired allies, Chronicles names Mesopotamia and Zobah and adds a detail Samuel does not carry at all, the price: a thousand talents of silver for thirty and two thousand chariots. Albert Barnes flags the chariot count itself as textually difficult, since no ancient army of the period fielded a force that size, and suspects a word for horsemen has dropped out beside it. The Chronicler's fondness for numbers and sums, seen again in the temple accounts later in this book, shows even in a war chapter borrowed from Samuel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But, instead of this, they prepared for war, and so brought upon themselves, by David's hand, those desolations which he never intended them. How the courage of brave men is heightened and invigorated by difficulties. When Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind (

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David--One universal feeling of indignation was roused throughout Israel, and all classes supported the king in his determination to avenge this unprovoked insult on the Hebrew nation.

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A thousand talents of silver - The price is not given in Samuel. On the practice of hiring troops about this time in western Asia, see 1Ki 15:18; 2Ki 7:6; 2Ch 25:6.

The words behind it

25 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּרְאוּ֙and they saw

    vaiyiruH72001300 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • עַמּ֔וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983106 times

  • כִּ֥יthat

    kiH35884482 times

  • הִֽתְבָּאֲשׁ֖וּthey had made themselves odious

    hitbaashuH887

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H59731050 times

  • דָּוִ֑ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֣חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971845 times

  • חָ֠נוּןHanun

    chanunH258611 times

  • וּבְנֵ֨יand [the] people of

    uveneiH11214930 times

  • עַמּ֜וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983106 times

  • אֶ֣לֶףone thousand

    ʾelefH505505 times

  • כִּכַּר־talent[s] of

    kikar-H360368 times

  • כֶּ֗סֶףsilver

    kesefH3701403 times

  • לִשְׂכֹּ֣רto hire

    liskorH7936

  • לָ֠הֶםfor themselves

    lahem

  • מִן־from

    min-H44801188 times

  • אֲרַ֨םAram

    ʾaramH763

  • נַהֲרַ֜יִםNaharaim

    naharayimH763

  • וּמִן־and from

    umin-H44801188 times

  • אֲרַ֤םAram

    ʾaramH758143 times

  • מַעֲכָה֙Maacah

    maakhahH460123 times

  • וּמִצּוֹבָ֔הand from Zobah

    umitzovahH667812 times

  • רֶ֖כֶבchariotry

    rekhevH7393119 times

  • וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃and horsemen

    ufarashimH6571

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 10:6

    When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 34:30

      Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Samuel 27:12

      So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 8:5

      When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

    • 2 Samuel 8:3

      David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.

  • Through

    Genesis 34:30

    Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:4

      And all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked an outpost of the Philistines, and now Israel has become a stench to the Philistines!” Then the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 105:12

      When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

    • Joshua 7:25

      “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

    • Exodus 5:21

      “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.