1Ch 19:7 | TSK | STEP | hired. 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 mäachah,} "the king of Maachah." king Maachah. Medeba.

1 Chronicles 19:7

hired.

18:4; Ex 14:9; Jud 4:3; 1Sa 13:5; 2Ch 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 mäachah,} "the king of Maachah."

2Sa 10:6

king Maachah. Medeba.

Nu 21:30; Jos 13:9; Isa 15:2