1Ch 19:6-7 | ESV | STEP | When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David , Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia , from Aram-maacah , and from Zobah .

1 Chronicles 19:6-7

6 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver to hire chariots and horsemen ^bfrom Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from ^cZobah. 7 They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before ^dMedeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.