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2 Chronicles 26:14

Moreover, Uzziah prepared shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and sling stones for the entire army.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Archery;   Armies;   Blessing;   Helmet;   Shield;   Sling;   Uzziah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Shields;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Arms, Military;   Bow, the;   Kings;   Shields;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Sling;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Hosea;   Uzziah;   War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coat of Mail;   Tiglath-Pileser Iii.;   Uzziah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arms;   Micah;   Sling;   Tiglath Pileser;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Chronicles, Books of;   Coat of Mail;   Habergeon;   Uzzia(h);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Armour, Arms;   Army;   Chronicles, I;   Uzziah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Armour;   Sling;   Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armor;   Arms;   Handicraft;   Uzziah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Arms, Armor;   Handicraft;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Arms;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   Chronicles, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Helmet;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Uzziah provided the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
Hebrew Names Version
`Uzziyah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
King James Version
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
English Standard Version
And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
New Century Version
Uzziah gave his army shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones for their slings.
New English Translation
Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.
New American Standard Bible
Moreover, Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and slingstones.
World English Bible
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Vzziah prepared them throughout all the hoste, shieldes, and speares, and helmets, and brigandines, and bowes, and stones to sling.
Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover, Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and stones for sling.
Berean Standard Bible
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
Contemporary English Version
Uzziah supplied his army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones used for slinging.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Uziyahu equipped them, the whole army, with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows and slingstones.
Darby Translation
And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and even slinging-stones.
Easy-to-Read Version
Uzziah gave the army shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones for the slings.
George Lamsa Translation
And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout all the host, shields and spears and helmets and breastplates and bows and slings to cast stones.
Good News Translation
Uzziah supplied the army with shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and arrows, and stones for slinging.
Lexham English Bible
And Uzziah prepared small shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the whole army.
Literal Translation
And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, even to stones for the slings.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Osias prepared for all the hoost, shyldes, speares, helmettes, brestplates, bowes and slyngstones.
American Standard Version
And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
Bible in Basic English
And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Uzzia prouided them throughout all the hoast, shieldes, speares, helmets, haberginnes, bowes, and slinges for to cast stones.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
King James Version (1611)
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the hoste, shields, and speares, and helmets, and habergions, and bowes, and slings to cast stones.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Ozias prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, and slings for stones.
English Revised Version
And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Ozie made redi to hem, that is, to al the oost, scheldis, and speris, and basynetis, and haburiouns, and bouwis, and slyngis to caste stonys.
Update Bible Version
And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.
New King James Version
Then Uzziah prepared for them, for the entire army, shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and slings to cast stones.
New Living Translation
Uzziah provided the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and sling stones.
New Life Bible
Uzziah had battle-coverings, spears, head-coverings, strong battle-clothes, bows, and slings using arrows and large stones made for all the army.
New Revised Standard
Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the host, bucklers and spears and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, - and yea even sling-stones.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
Revised Standard Version
And Uzzi'ah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
Young's Literal Translation
And Uzziah prepareth for them, for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, even to stones of the slings.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moreover, Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows and sling stones.

Contextual Overview

1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king [Amaziah] slept with his fathers [in death]. 3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem. 4He did right in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that his father Amaziah had done. 5He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought (inquired of, longing for) the LORD, God caused him to prosper. 6He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke through the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities near Ashdod and [elsewhere] among the Philistines. 7God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites. 8The Ammonites paid tribute (money) to Uzziah, and his fame spread abroad, even as far as the border of Egypt, for he became very strong. 9Uzziah also built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress [of the wall], and fortified them. 10He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, for he had a great deal of livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plain. He also had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slings to cast stones: Heb. stones of slings, Judges 20:16, 1 Samuel 17:49

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:32 - as it were 2 Chronicles 11:12 - he put shields 2 Chronicles 32:5 - darts Job 41:29 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
Therefore Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram was extremely rich in livestock and in silver and in gold.
Genesis 26:13
And the man [Isaac] became great and gained more and more until he became very wealthy and extremely distinguished;
Genesis 26:14
he owned flocks and herds and a great household [with a number of servants], and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 37:11
Joseph's brothers were envious and jealous of him, but his father kept the words [of Joseph] in mind [wondering about their meaning].
1 Samuel 18:9
Saul looked at David with suspicion [and jealously] from that day forward.
Job 1:3
He also possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke (pairs) of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very great number of servants, so that this man was the greatest [and wealthiest and most respected] of all the men of the east (northern Arabia).
Job 5:2
"For anger slays the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
Job 42:12
And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
Psalms 112:3
Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host,.... For every soldier in the army:

shields and spears; defensive and offensive weapons, the one to cover and protect their bodies, the other to push and pierce their enemies:

and helmets, and habergeons; the first of these were a covering for the head in the day of battle, and the other coats of mail, to defend the body:

and bows; to shoot arrows out of:

and slings to cast stones; at which the Benjaminites formerly were very expert.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sling was used in war by the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks, Romans, and others. Its employment by the Benjamites appears from Judges 20:16, and by the ten tribes, a century before Uzziah, from 2 Kings 3:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 26:14. Shields, and spears — He prepared a vast number of military weapons, that he might have them in readiness to put into the hands of his subjects on any exigency.


 
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