Scripture · Old Testament
2 Chronicles 25:6
2 Chronicles 25:6 is verse 6 of 2 Chronicles chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
100 talents is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver; also in verse 9.
King James Version
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
World English Bible
He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds
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2 Chronicles 25:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
5 Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
6 He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
7 But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
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