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New Revised Standard

2 Chronicles 17:17

Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty warrior, with two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Benjamin;   Captain;   Eliada;   Jehoshaphat;   Shield;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Benjamin, Tribe of;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Bow;   Jehoshaphat;   Jerusalem;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bow;   Eliada;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Benjamin;   Census;   Eliada;   Jehoshaphat;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Chronicles, Books of;   Eliada;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Eliada;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Army;   Eliada ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Benjamin;   War;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ben'jamin, the Tribe of;   Eli'ada;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Eliada;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Benjamin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shield;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
from Benjamin, Eliada, a valiant warrior, and two hundred thousand with him armed with bow and shield;
Hebrew Names Version
Of Binyamin: Elyada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
King James Version
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
English Standard Version
Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men armed with bow and shield;
New Century Version
These were the commanders from the families of Benjamin: Eliada, a brave soldier, had two hundred thousand soldiers who used bows and shields.
New English Translation
From Benjamin, Eliada, a skilled warrior, led 200,000 men who were equipped with bows and shields,
Amplified Bible
and of Benjamin: Eliada, a brave man, and with him 200,000 men armed with bow and shield;
New American Standard Bible
and of Benjamin, Eliada, a valiant warrior, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
World English Bible
Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of Beniamin, Eliada a valiant man, and with him armed men with bowe and shielde two hundreth thousand.
Legacy Standard Bible
and of Benjamin, Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 equipped with bow and shield;
Berean Standard Bible
from Benjamin, Eliada, a mighty warrior, and 200,000 with him armed with bows and shields;
Contemporary English Version
Eliada was a brave warrior who commanded the troops from Benjamin. He had two hundred thousand soldiers under his command, all of them armed with bows and shields.
Complete Jewish Bible
From Binyamin: Elyada, a strong, brave man, and with him 200,000 equipped with bows and shields;
Darby Translation
And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand, armed with bow and shield;
Easy-to-Read Version
From the tribe of Benjamin these were the generals: Eliada had 200,000 soldiers who used bows, arrows, and shields. Eliada was a very brave soldier.
George Lamsa Translation
And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred thousand.
Good News Translation
The commander of the troops from the clans of Benjamin was Eliada, an outstanding soldier, in command of 200,000 men armed with shields and bows.
Lexham English Bible
And from Benjamin: Eliada, a powerful mighty warrior, and with him were two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
Literal Translation
And of Benjamin, Eliada a mighty man, and two hundred thousand armed men with bow and shield with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of the children of Ben Iamin was Eliada a mightie man, and with him were two hundreth thousande ready with bowes and shyldes.
American Standard Version
And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
Bible in Basic English
And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And of the children of Beniamin, Eliada a man of might, and with him armed men with bowe and shielde two hundred thousand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
King James Version (1611)
And of Beniamin, Eliada a mightie man of valour, and with him, armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And out of Benjamin there was a mighty man of strength, even Eliada, and with him two hundred thousand archers and targeteers.
English Revised Version
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Eliada myyti to batels suede this Amasie, and with hym weren two hundrid thousynde of men holdynge bouwe and scheeld.
Update Bible Version
And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
Webster's Bible Translation
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
New King James Version
Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield;
New Living Translation
From Benjamin there were 200,000 troops equipped with bows and shields. They were under the command of Eliada, a veteran soldier.
New Life Bible
Eliada was a powerful soldier of the family of Benjamin. He had with him 200,000 men with bows and battle-coverings.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, out of Benjamin, a hero of valour, Eliada, - and, with him, armed with bow and buckler, two hundred thousand;
Douay-Rheims Bible
After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield.
Revised Standard Version
Of Benjamin: Eli'ada, a mighty man of valor, with two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield,
Young's Literal Translation
And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and of Benjamin, Eliada a valiant warrior, and with him 200,000 armed with bow and shield;

Contextual Overview

10 The fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands around Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat. 11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; and the Arabs also brought him seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred male goats. 12 Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah. 13 He carried out great works in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty warriors, in Jerusalem. 14 This was the muster of them by ancestral houses: Of Judah, the commanders of the thousands: Adnah the commander, with three hundred thousand mighty warriors, 15 and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with two hundred eighty thousand, 16 and next to him Amasiah son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the Lord , with two hundred thousand mighty warriors. 17 Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty warrior, with two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield, 18 and next to him Jehozabad with one hundred eighty thousand armed for war. 19 These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

armed men: 2 Chronicles 14:8, 2 Samuel 1:21, 2 Samuel 1:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:37 - General Deuteronomy 33:12 - The beloved 1 Chronicles 7:7 - were reckoned

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"
Genesis 21:6
Now Sarah said, "God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Leviticus 9:24
Fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
Numbers 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.
Numbers 16:22
They fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?"
Numbers 16:45
"Get away from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And of Benjamin, Eliada, a mighty man of valour,.... Was the chief commander:

and with armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand; which were the armour of the tribe of Benjamin they were best skilled in, 2 Chronicles 14:8.


 
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