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1 Chronicles 19:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hired: 1 Chronicles 18:4, Exodus 14:9, Judges 4:3, 1 Samuel 13:5, 2 Chronicles 14:9, Psalms 20:7-9
thirty: Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand sent by the king of Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage - 2 Samuel 10:6, but of chariots or cavalry there is no mention; and the number of chariots stated here is prodigious, and beyond all credibility. But as the word raichev denotes not only a chariot, but a rider (see Isaiah 21:7), it ought most probably to be rendered here, in a collective sense, cavalry; and then the number of troops will exactly agree with the passage in Samuel. It is probable that they were a kind of auxiliary troops who were usually mounted on horses, or in chariots, but who occasionally served as foot-soldiers.
the king of Maachah: This variation exists only in the translation, the original being the same in both places, melech maachah, "the king of Maachah." 2 Samuel 10:6, king Maachah
Medeba: Numbers 21:30, Joshua 13:9, Isaiah 15:2
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:8 - at the entering
Cross-References
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
Before bedtime, men both young and old and from every part of Sodom surrounded Lot's house.
Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men—both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom—surrounded the house.
But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
But before they lay down [to sleep], the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house, all the men from every quarter;
Forsothe bifore that thei yeden to sleepe, men of the citee compassiden his hows, fro a child `til to an eld man, al the puple togidre;
Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;
Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
See Gill "1Ch 19:1".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26; 2 Chronicles 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,940. The words âand horsemenâ have probably fallen out of the text after the word âchariotsâ (compare 1 Chronicles 19:6). The 32,000 would be the number of the warriors serving on horseback or in chariots; and this number would agree closely with 2 Samuel 10:6, as the following table shows:
2 Samuel 10:6 | Men |
Syrians of Beth-rehob and Zobah | 20,000 |
Syrians of Ish-tob | 12,000 |
Syrians of Maachah | 1,000 |
Total | 33,000 |
1 Chronicles 19:7 | Men |
Syrians of Zobah, etc. | 32,000 |
Syrians of Machah ( number not given) | 1,000 |
Total | 33,000 |
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Chronicles 19:7. 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.