6He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.


In Context

3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sins."

5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men ready for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.

6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

7 But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the Lord is not with Israel-not with any of the people of Ephraim.

8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."

2nd Chronicles 25:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:6And he hireth out of Israel a hundred thousand mighty ones of valour, with a hundred talents of silver;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:6He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.