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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 26:14

Uzziah supplied his army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and stones used for slinging.

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.
Amplified Bible
Moreover, Uzziah prepared shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and sling stones 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.
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

1After the death of King Amaziah, the people of Judah crowned his son Uzziah king, even though he was only sixteen at the time. Uzziah ruled fifty-two years from Jerusalem, the hometown of his mother Jecoliah. During his rule, he recaptured and rebuilt the town of Elath. 4 He obeyed the Lord by doing right, as his father Amaziah had done. 5 Zechariah was Uzziah's advisor and taught him to obey God. And so, as long as Zechariah was alive, Uzziah was faithful to God, and God made him successful. 6 While Uzziah was king, he started a war against the Philistines. He smashed the walls of the cities of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod, then rebuilt towns around Ashdod and in other parts of Philistia. 7 God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur-Baal, and the Meunites. 8 Even the Ammonites paid taxes to Uzziah. He became very powerful, and people who lived as far away as Egypt heard about him. 9 In Jerusalem, Uzziah built fortified towers at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the place where the city wall turned inward. 10 He also built defense towers out in the desert. He owned such a large herd of livestock in the western foothills and in the flatlands, that he had cisterns dug there to catch the rainwater. He loved farming, so he had crops and vineyards planted in the hill country wherever there was fertile soil, and he hired farmers to take care of them. 11 Uzziah's army was always ready for battle. Jeiel and Maaseiah were the officers who kept track of the number of soldiers, and these two men were under the command of Hananiah, one of Uzziah's officials. 12There were 307,500 trained soldiers, all under the command of 2,600 clan leaders. These powerful troops protected the king against any enemy.

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
The king was good to Abram because of Sarai, and Abram was given sheep, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich. He owned many cattle, sheep, and goats, and had a lot of silver and gold.
Genesis 26:13
and Isaac was so successful that he became very rich.
Genesis 26:14
In fact, the Philistines were jealous of the large number of sheep, goats, and slaves that Isaac owned,
Genesis 37:11
Joseph's brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept wondering about the dream.
1 Samuel 18:9
Saul never again trusted David.
Job 1:3
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.
Job 5:2
Envy and jealousy will kill a stupid fool.
Job 42:12
The Lord now blessed Job more than ever; he gave him fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand pair of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.
Psalms 112:3
They will get rich and prosper and will always be remembered for their fairness.

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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