1 Chronicles 19:6
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
Note 1,000 talents is approximately 37.7 tons or 34.2 metric tons of silver.
Note That is, Mesopotamia; Aram-naharaim means Aram of the two rivers, likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
Note odious: Heb. to stink
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.
Note A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- had made
- Luke 10:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8
- odious
- Heb. to stink.
- Genesis 34:30; Exodus 5:21; 1 Samuel 13:4; 1 Samuel 27:12; Psalm 14:3
- a thousand
- 2 Chronicles 16:2, 3; 2 Chronicles 25:6; 2 Chronicles 27:5; Psalm 46:9
- Syria-maachah
- 2 Samuel 10:6
- Zobah
- 2 Chronicles 18:3, 5, 9; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Kings 11:23, 24