2 Chronicles 25:6
New International Version
He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

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

New King James Version
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

New American Standard Bible
He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

NASB 1995
He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

NASB 1977
He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Amplified Bible
He also hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

Christian Standard Bible
Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired one hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then for 7,500 pounds of silver he hired 100,000 brave warriors from Israel.

American Standard Version
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he hired from Israel a hundred thousand men mighty men of power for a hundred talents of silver.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.

Contemporary English Version
Amaziah also paid about 3.4 tons of silver to hire 100,000 soldiers from Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He also hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel for 7,500 pounds of silver.

Good News Translation
In addition, he hired 100,000 soldiers from Israel at a cost of about four tons of silver.

International Standard Version
He also hired 100,000 elite forces from Israel, paying 100 talents of silver for their services.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

Literal Standard Version
And he hires out of Israel one hundred thousand mighty men of valor, with one hundred talents of silver;

Majority Standard Bible
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

New American Bible
He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

NET Bible
He hired 100,000 Israelite warriors for a hundred talents of silver.

New Revised Standard Version
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty warriors from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

New Heart English Bible
He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

World English Bible
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

Young's Literal Translation
And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;

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Context
Amaziah's Victories
5Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield. 6He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver. 7But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:5
Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:7
But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel--not with any of the Ephraimites.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Exodus 38:25,26
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: …

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2 Chronicles 25
1. Amaziah begins to reign well
3. He executes justice on the traitors
5. having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites,
7. at the word of a prophet dismisses them
11. He overthrows the Edomites
13. The Israelites, discontented with their dismission, spoil as they return home
14. Amaziah, proud of his victory, serves the gods of Edom, and ignores the prophet
17. He provokes Joash to his overthrow
25. His reign
27. He is slain by conspiracy














(6) He hired also . . . out of Israel--i.e., from the northern kingdom. The number has probably suffered in transmission. Thenius pronounces the fact historical, although not recorded in Kings.

An hundred talents of silver.--Worth about 40,000 of our money, reckoning 400 to the talent. What such a sum would represent in the days of Amaziah cannot be determined with certainty.

Verse 6. - Out of Israel. The next verse tells us that "all the children of Ephraim" (which was strictly the northern Israel's chief tribe) are hereby designated. It is not quite clear that this Israel is exactly conterminous with the Israel of 2 Chronicles 13:3, the identity of which, however, with Joab's Israel (2 Samuel 24:9) is very probable. The boundaries of the strict tribe of Ephraim, whose ancestor was Joseph's younger son, are described in Joshua 16:5. The tribe were located as nearly as possible in the centre of the land. Ephraim, however, is here, as in many other places, as the name of the royal tribe, so named upon the whole of the northern kingdom (Isaiah 9:8; Isaiah 17:3; Isaiah 28:3; several times in almost every chapter of Hosea, and for a typical instance, cf. Hosea 14:8).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He also hired
וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣ר (way·yiś·kōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7936: To hire

100,000
בְּמֵאָ֥ה (bə·mê·’āh)
Preposition-b | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 3967: A hundred

mighty warriors
גִּבּ֥וֹר (gib·bō·wr)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

from Israel
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל (mî·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

for a hundred
מֵ֥אָה (mê·’āh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 3967: A hundred

talents
כִכַּר־ (ḵik·kar-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3603: A round, a round district, a round loaf, a round weight, a talent (a measure of weight or money)

of silver.
כָּֽסֶף׃ (kā·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money


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