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Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
They hired thirty and two thousand chariots - The reading is corrupt. Such a number as 32,000 chariots alone was never brought into battle on any occasion. Compare the numbers in Exodus 14:7; I Kings 10:26; II Chronicles 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,940. The words "and horsemen" have probably fallen out of the text after the word "chariots" (compare I Chronicles 19:6). The 32,000 would be the number of the warriors serving on horseback or in chariots; and this number would agree closely with II Samuel 10:6, as the following table shows: II Samuel 10:6:
| Syrians of Beth-rehob and Zobah:
Syrians of Ish-tob:
Syrians of Maachah:
Total | 20,000
12,000
1,000
33,000 |
I Chronicles 19:7
| Syrians of Zobah, etc
Syrians of Machah (not given)
Total | 32,000
[1,000]
33,000 |
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 19:7:
Numbers 21:29
2 Samuel 10:6
2 Samuel 10:6
2 Samuel 10:8
2 Kings 7:6
1 Chronicles 19:7
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