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2 Chronicles 26:14

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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.
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

1The people of Judah then took Uzziah, who was only sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. The first thing he did after his father was dead and buried was to recover Elath for Judah and rebuild it. 3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king and reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem. He behaved well in the eyes of God , following in the footsteps of his father Amaziah. He was a loyal seeker of God. He was well trained by his pastor and teacher Zechariah to live in reverent obedience before God, and for as long as Zechariah lived, Uzziah lived a godly life. And God prospered him. 6He ventured out and fought the Philistines, breaking into the fortress cities of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He also built settlements around Ashdod and other Philistine areas. God helped him in his wars with the Philistines, the Arabs in Gur Baal, and the Meunites. The Ammonites also paid tribute. Uzziah became famous, his reputation extending all the way to Egypt. He became quite powerful. 9Uzziah constructed defense towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and at the corner of the wall. He also built towers and dug cisterns out in the country. He had herds of cattle down in the foothills and out on the plains, had farmers and vinedressers at work in the hills and fields—he loved growing things. 11On the military side, Uzziah had a well-prepared army ready to fight. They were organized by companies under the direction of Jeiel the secretary, Maaseiah the field captain, and Hananiah of the general staff. The roster of family leaders over the fighting men accounted for 2,600. Under them were reinforcement troops numbering 307,000, with 500 of them on constant alert—a strong royal defense against any attack. Uzziah had them well-armed with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingshots. He also installed the latest in military technology on the towers and corners of Jerusalem for shooting arrows and hurling stones. He became well known for all this—a famous king. Everything seemed to go his way.

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
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
Job 42:12
God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.
Proverbs 10:22
God 's blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God.
Proverbs 27:4
We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.

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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