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For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2 Kings 7:6 — KJV
To hear a noise. For similar examples, see on ch. 6:19.
Hath hired. The use of mercenary troops was common in antiquity. The children of Ammon hired the Syrians for resistance against David (2 Sam. 10:6 and 1 Chron. 19:6, 7). In the shifting political relationships of the ancient East, the force of any national group could at some time or other find itself arrayed against almost any other people.
The Hittites. See p. 30. Only remnants of the once powerful Hittite kingdom were now in existence. But the little Hittite states of northern Syria retained many of their original warlike characteristics, and their forces could provide a serious threat to the armies of Syria.
Kings of the Egyptians. This was the time of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt (see on 1 Kings 14:25) when the capital was at Bubastis in the eastern Delta and Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Lybian kings. The “kings of the Egyptians” undoubtedly refers to certain minor and subsidiary kinglets rather than to the king of Egypt proper.
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