2 Chronicles 26:14
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
2 Chronicles 26:14 in other translations
| BSB | Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones. |
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| WEB | Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and even slinging-stones. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. |
What does 2 Chronicles 26:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 26:11-15
11-15. an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands--He raised a strong body of militia, divided into companies or regiments of uniform size, which served in rotation. The enumeration was performed by two functionaries expert in the drawing up of military muster-rolls, under the superintendence of Hananiah, one of the high officers of the crown. The army consisted of 307,500 picked men, under the command…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 26:1-15
As long as Uzziah sought the Lord, and minded religion, God made him to prosper. Those only prosper whom God makes to prosper; for prosperity is his gift. Many have owned, that as long as they sought the Lord, and kept close to their duty, they prospered; but when they forsook God, every thing went cross. God never continues either to bless the indolent or to withhold his blessing from the diligent. He will never…
2 Chronicles 26:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 26:14
- Judges 20:16
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
- 1 Samuel 17:49
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jud 20:16; 1Sa 17:49
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- 2 Chronicles 26:13
And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
- 2 Chronicles 26:15
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
2 Chronicles 26:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y aprestóles Uzzías para todo el ejército, escudos, lanzas, almetes, coseletes, arcos, y hondas de tirar piedras. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Ozias leur prépara, pour toute l’armée, des boucliers, et des piques, et des casques, et des cuirasses, et des arcs, et jusqu’à des pierres de fronde. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Ussija bereitete ihnen, dem ganzen Heere, Schilde und Lanzen und Helme und Panzer und Bogen und Schleudersteine. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Præparavit quoque eis Ozias, id est, cuncto exercitui, clypeos, et hastas, et galeas, et loricas, arcusque et fundas ad jaciendos lapides. |