1 Chronicles 19:6-7
had made Luke 10:16; 1Thess 4:8 odious Heb. to stink, Gen 34:30; Exod 5:21; 1Sam 13:4, 1Sam 27:12; Ps 14:3 *marg. a thousand 2Chr 16:2-3, 2Chr 25:6, 2Chr 27:5; Ps 46:9 Syriamaachah 2Sam 10:6 Zobah 2Chr 18:3, 2Chr 18:5, 2Chr 18:9; 1Sam 14:47; 2Sam 8:3; 1Kgs 11:23-24 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 sent by the king of Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2Sam 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 maachah, "the king of Maachah." 2Sam 10:6, king Maachah Medeba Num 21:30; Josh 13:9; Isa 15:2
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