2 CHRONICLES 25:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.”
The northern mercenaries — 'He also hired a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver' (ויעד אמציה מישׂראל מאת אלף גיבור חיל בכסף מאה ככר). Amaziah supplements his force with 100,000 northern mercenaries for 100 talents of silver. The mercenary arrangement suggests reliance on professional soldiers from the north. The transaction is explicitly commercial (בכסף, for silver), indicating that military power can be purchased.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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