| II Chronicles 25:6
| He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.
| Thousand. Yet "they were so greatly reduced, but a few years before, that there were left....only fifty horsemen," etc., 4 Kings 13:7. (Kennicott) --- That might be true, at one time, when the people fled from the king's banners, through fear. But they were still in the country, and God gave Israel a saviour, 4 Kings 13:5. See 2 Paralipomenon 13:3., and 17:19. (Haydock) --- Silver. This sum was very small, for so great a multitude. Salien suspects talents of gold are meant, though the soldiers were paid in silver. But the sum was only the hire for a short time; (Menochius) and was not distributed among the soldiers, who were to live on plunder, but went into the king's coffers, (Calmet) or belonged to the officers alone. (Mariana) (Du Hamel) --- The talent of silver was worth 342l. 3s. 9d. (Arbuthnot)
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