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So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Chariots. This number seems excessive, and it may have been put for infantry; the number of which, specified 2 Kennicott. 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.) verse 18, Isaiah 21:7. Tirinus.—Sometimes the whole number is specified; at others only a part.
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