2 Chronicles 25:6
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He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.

2s

6d. and the talent, being

3000 shekels (see

Exodus 38:25,26 And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms. . . .

) at

375l., one hundred talents would amount to

37,500l; which divided among

100,000 men, quotes only

7s

6d; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites.

Context
Amaziah's Victories
5Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield. 6He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.7But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:5
Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by families, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and found three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and could hold the spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:7
But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:

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

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

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

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

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

talents
כִכַּר־ (ḵik·kar-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 3701: Silver, money


Additional Translations
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;
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