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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 26:14

Uzziah provided the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

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

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.
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

1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 2After Amaziah the king rested with his fathers, Uzziah rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah. 3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem. 4He did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done. 5He sought God throughout the lifetime of Zechariah, the teacher of the fear of God. During the time that he sought the Lord, God gave him success. 6Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod. Then he built cities in the vicinity of Ashdod and among the Philistines. 7God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites. 8The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the entrance of Egypt, for God made him very powerful. 9Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the corner buttress, and he fortified them. 10Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.

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
He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
Genesis 26:13
and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.
Genesis 26:14
He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him.
Genesis 37:11
His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
1 Samuel 18:9
So Saul watched David jealously from that day forward.
Job 1:3
His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.
Job 5:2
For anger kills a fool,and jealousy slays the gullible.
Job 42:12
So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand 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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