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When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent one thousand talents[a] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maakah, and Zobah. So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the king of Maakah and his people. They camped before Medeba as the Ammonites gathered from their cities to go out to war.

When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 19:6 About 38 tons, or 34 metric tons.