1 Chronicles 19:7 (KJV)

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So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots and the king of Maachah and his people who came and pitched before Medeba And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities and came to battle

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hired. 1Ch 18:4 Ex 14:9 Re 3:3 1Sa 13:5 2Ch 14:9 Ps 20:7-9

the king of Maachah.This variation exists only in the translation, the original being the same in both places, {melech mäachah,} "the king of Maachah." 2Sa 10:6

king Maachah. Medeba. Nu 21:30 Jos 13:9 Isa 15:2

thirty.Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand send by the Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Sa 10:6;) but of chariots or cavalry there is no mention; and the number of chariots stated here is prodigious, and beyond all credibility. But as the word {raichev} denotes not only a chariot, but a rider, (see Isa 21:7,) it ought most probably to be rendered here, in a collective sense, cavalry; and then the number of troops will exactly agree with the passage in Samuel. It is probable that they were a kind of auxiliary troops who were usually mounted on horses, or in chariots, but who occasionally served as foot-soldiers.

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