Teks -- 1 Chronicles 19:7 (NET)

19:7 They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ch 19:7 - Chariots

Thirty two thousand men, who fought partly from chariots, and partly on foot with chariots, or attending upon the chariots, as the ancient manner of fighting was.

JFB: 1Ch 19:7 - So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots

Hebrew, "riders," or "cavalry," accustomed to fight either on horseback or in chariots, and occasionally on foot. Accepting this as the true rendering, the number of hired auxiliaries mentioned in this passage agrees exactly with the statement in 2Sa 10:6 : twenty thousand (from Syria), twelve thousand (from Tob), equal to thirty-two thousand, and one thousand with the king of Maachah.

Clarke: 1Ch 19:7 - Thirty and two thousand

Thirty and two thousand - The whole number mentioned in Samuel is, Syrians, of Beth-rehob, and of Zoba, twenty thousand; of King Maacah, one thousand; of Ish-tob, twelve thousand; in all thirty-three thousand. Of chariots or cavalry there is no mention. These could not have been the whole army.

TSK: 1Ch 19:7 - hired // thirty // the king of Maachah // Medeba

hired : 1Ch 18:4; Exo 14:9; Jdg 4:3; 1Sa 13:5; 2Ch 14:9; Psa 20:7-9

thirty : Thirty-two thousand soldiers, exclusive of the thousand sent by the king of Maachah, are mentioned in the parallel passage (2Sa 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 maachah , ""the king of Maachah.""2Sa 10:6, king Maachah

Medeba : Num 21:30; Jos 13:9; Isa 15:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ch 19:7 - Thirty and two thousand chariots

Thirty and two thousand chariots i. e. thirty-two thousand men fighting from or with chariots, as that word is elsewhere used; of which see my notes on 1Sa 13:5 . And this interpretation seems the more probable by comparing this place with 2Sa 10:6 , where this army is said to consist of twenty thousand footmen , and twelve thousand men of Ish-tob ; which make up these thirty-two thousand men, who fought partly from chariots, and partly on foot with chariots, or attending upon the chariots, as the ancient manner of fighting was. And here, 1Ch 19:6 , this army is made up of chariots and horsemen ; where, except the chariots be understood of footmen, there were no footmen in the army, which is unusual and incredible.

Haydock: 1Ch 19:7 - Chariots

Chariots. This number seems excessive, and it may have been put for infantry; the number of which, specified [in] 2 Kings, was 33,000. But the troops of Mesopotamia are not there mentioned, and this supplies what was left defective. (Calmet) ---

The chariots may signify those who fought upon them, (Menochius) ver. 18., and Isaias xxi. 7. (Tirinus) ---

Sometimes the whole number is specified; at others only a part.

Gill: 1Ch 19:1-19

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