1 Chr 19:7

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hired.

1Chr 18:4; Exod 14:9; Judg 4:3; 1Sam 13:5; 2Chr 14:9; Ps 20:7-9

thirty.

Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand send by the Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Sa 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 Isa 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 m�chah,} "the king of Maachah."

2Sa 10:6

king Maachah. Medeba.

Num 21:30; Josh 13:9; Isa 15:2