* hired.
# 18:4; Ex 14:9; Jud 4:3; 1Sa 13:5; 2Ch 14:9; Ps 20:7-9|
* 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.
* the king of Maachah.
This variation exists only in the translation, the original
being the same in both places, {melech m(8461)chah,} "the king of
Maachah."
# 2Sa 10:6|
* king Maachah. Medeba.
# Nu 21:30; Jos 13:9; Isa 15:2|
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