Verse 1
1 Chronicles 19:1
Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.
Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.
Hanun - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon.
They hired thirty and two thousand chariots - The reading is corrupt. Such a number as 32,000 chariots alone was never brought into battle on any occasion. Compare the numbers in Exo 14:7; 1Ki 10:26; 2Ch 12:3. The largest force which an Assyrian king ever speaks of encountering is 3,940. The words “and horsemen” have probably fallen out of the text after the word “chariots” (compare 1Ch 19:6). The 32,000 would be the number of the warriors serving on horseback or in chariots; and this number would agree closely with 2Sa 10:6, as the following table shows:
| Men | |
| Syrians of Beth-rehob and Zobah | 20,000 |
| Syrians of Ish-tob | 12,000 |
| Syrians of Maachah | 1,000 |
| Total | 33,000 |
| Men | |
| Syrians of Zobah, etc. | 32,000 |
| Syrians of Machah ( number not given) | 1,000 |
| Total | 33,000 |