OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

1 Chronicles 19:6

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When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

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1 Chronicles 19:6 in context

1 Chronicles 19:3–9

3

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

4

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

5

Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

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When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

7

So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

8

When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.

9

The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

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  1. A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons

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