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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel 10:6 — KJV
Hired. According to 1 Chron. 19:6 Hanun paid 1,000 talents of silver to hire horsemen and chariots. The spending of so large a sum of money to secure forces to assist Ammon indicates the grave character of the crisis. For Ammon it meant total war against Israel in an attempt to crush the forces of David and remove once and for all the threat of Hebrew domination of Western Asia.
Beth-rehob. Literally, “house of the street.” Called “Rehob” in v. 8. The parallel passage reads “Mesopotamia” (1 Chron. 19:6). Its exact location is not known.
Zoba. See on ch. 8:3.
King Maacah. This should be translated, “the king of Maachah” (see 1 Chron. 19:7). The Hebrew is the same in both passages. For its location see Deut. 3:14; Joshua 12:5. It must have been one of the smaller Syrian states, for it furnished only 1,000 men.
Ish-tob. Literally, “man [or men] of Tob.” This place is not mentioned in the parallel record in Chronicles. Jephthah fled to Tob when forced to leave Gilead (Judges 11:3). Its location is not certain; it is possibly northeast of Ramoth-gilead.
Twelve thousand men. The 12,000 men hired from Tob, the 20,000 from Beth-rehob and Zoba, make a total of 32,000 men. Chronicles gives this figure as the total number of chariots, perhaps meaning horsemen (1 Chron. 19:7). In addition to these, Chronicles mentions the “people” of Maacah, but does not give the number. Evidently the 32,000 troops hired were divided among the chariotry, cavalry, and infantry.
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