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Amaziah’s Victories

2 Chronicles 25:6

In 11 translations

BSB
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.
KJV
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
WEB
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
ASV
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
LSV
And he hires out of Israel one hundred thousand mighty men of valor, with one hundred talents of silver;
YLT
And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;
DBY
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
DRC
He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
GNV
He hyred also an hundreth thousand valiant men out of Israel for an hundreth talents of siluer.
JPS
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
LXXE
Also he hired of Israel a hundred thousand mighty men for a hundred talents of silver.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣ר מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מֵ֥אָה אֶ֛לֶף גִּבּ֥וֹר חָ֖יִל בְּמֵאָ֥ה כִכַּר־כָּֽסֶף׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐμισθώσατο ἀπὸ Ἰσραὴλ ἑκατὸν χιλιάδας δυνατοὺς ἰσχύϊ ἑκατὸν ταλάντων ἀργυρίου.

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