1 Chronicles 19:7

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5 Then some went and told David about the men; and he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

6 When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from¹ Mesopotamia, from Syrian Maacah, ^aand from Zobah.

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

8 Now when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

9 Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

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1 Chronicles 19:7

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

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