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2 Chronicles 25:6

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He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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KJV King James Version

He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

He also hired 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

WEB World English Bible

He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

ASV American Standard Version

He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;

Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 25

3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

4 But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

5 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.

6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

8 But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

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