He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
Parallel translations
- WEB He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
- KJV He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
- NKJV He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
- NASB He also hired a hundred thousand valiant warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
- NLT He also paid about 7,500 pounds of silver to hire 100,000 experienced fighting men from Israel.
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Amaziah hired 100,000 Israelite soldiers for a hundred talents of silver. He sought to bolster his strength through an alliance God had not sanctioned.
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Distrusting his own army's sufficiency, Amaziah purchased mercenaries from the apostate northern kingdom. This reliance on Israel, then under God's disfavor, revealed weak faith. The episode sets up a prophetic rebuke and a test of whether Amaziah will trust God's power over costly human alliances.
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