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1 Chronicles 19:7

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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 came from their cities and marched out for battle.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

KJV

So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
They hired thirty and two thousand chariots - The reading is corrupt. Such a number as 32,000 chariots alone was never brought into battle on any occasion. Compare the numbers in Exo 14:7; 1Ki 10:26; 2Ch 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,940. The words “and horsemen” have probably fallen out of the text after the word “chariots” (compare 1Ch 19:6).

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 Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots--Hebrew, "riders," or "cavalry," accustomed to fight either on horseback or in chariots, and occasionally on foot.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Thirty and two thousand - The whole number mentioned in Samuel is, Syrians, of Beth-rehob, and of Zoba, twenty thousand; of King Maacah, one thousand; of Ish-tob, twelve thousand; in all thirty-three thousand. Of chariots or cavalry there is no mention. These could not have been the whole army.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּand they hired

    vaiyiskeruH7936 →

  • לָהֶ֡םfor themselves

    lahem

  • שְׁנַיִם֩two

    shenayimH8147 →768 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֨יםand thirty

    usheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • אֶ֜לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • רֶ֗כֶבchariot[s]

    rekhevH7393 →119 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מֶ֤לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • מַעֲכָה֙Maacah

    maakhahH4601 →23 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • עַמּ֔וֹpeople his

    amoH5971 →1873 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֕אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּand they encamped

    vaiyachanuH2583 →

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • מֵידְבָ֑אMedeba

    meidva'H4311 →

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] people of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עַמּ֗וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983 →106 times

  • נֶאֶסְפוּ֙they gathered

    neesfuH622 →200 times

  • מֵעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔םfrom cities their

    meareihemH5892 →1090 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ פfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

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

Related verses

12 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 13:9The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,5 worksNumbers 21:30But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”5 worksJoshua 13:16The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,3 works2 Samuel 10:6When 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 and twelve thousand men from Tob.2 works1 Samuel 13:5Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.2 worksIsaiah 15:2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 18:4David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.2 worksJudges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.2 worksExodus 14:9The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon.2 worksPsalms 20:7–9Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.2 works2 Chronicles 14:9Then Zerah the Cushite came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots, and they advanced as far as Mareshah.2 works2 Samuel 10:8The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.2 works

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

    Numbers 21:30

    But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 48:18

      Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 48:22

      upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 15:2

      Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

  • Through

    Joshua 13:16

    The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 12:2

      Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 13:9

      The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

  • 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

    • 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.

    • 2 Samuel 8:5

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

  • Through

    1 Samuel 13:5

    Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 11:4

      So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.

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

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