Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
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Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
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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.
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And under their hand was a trained army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
- 2 Chronicles 13:3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 14:8 Asa had an army of three hundred thousand out of Judah who bore bucklers and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand out of Benjamin who bore shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 17:14-19 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor; and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand; and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; and next to him Jehozabad, and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready and prepared for war. These were those who waited on the king, in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 26:13 And under their hand [was] an army,…
2Ch 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.
Ver. 13. Three hundred thousand.] This was far short of Jehoshaphat’s eleven hundred thousand. {2Ch 17:14-18} Honestum est ei qui in primis non potest, in secundis tertiisve consistere. {a}
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{a} Cicero.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning…
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,.... Such as with the Romans were called "catapultae", "ballistae" (u), "scorpiones" (w), &c. and by this it appears that these were not first invented in Greece and Rome, but in Judea. It is said (x), that the Romans received the machine to batter cities from the Greeks, and that the Trojan horse was no other than a battering ram; but if they did, the invention of them must be ascribed, not to them, but rather to the Syrians and Phoenicians, according to Pliny (y); though others (z) suppose the Carthaginians, who were a colony of theirs, to be the inventors of them; yet, after all, they seem to be the device of some skilful men among the Jews, in the times of Uzziah; according to Diodorus Siculus (a), they were not found out when Nineveh was besieged in the times of Sardanapalus:
and his name spread far abroad; in distant countries, for his warlike dispositions and preparations, which made them stand in fear of him:
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for he was helped until he was strong; he was wonderfully helped by the Lord to build fortified places, raise a numerous army, and provide all sorts of armour for them, and invent such machines as would greatly annoy the enemy, whereby he became very potent, and injected dread round about him.
(u) Cicero. Tusculan. Quaest. l. 2. Tacit. Hist. l. 3. c. 23. (w) Ammian. Marcellin. l. 23. (x) Vid. Valtrinum de re militari Roman. l. 5. c. 6. (y) Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56. (z) Vitruvius de Architectura, l. 10. c. 19. Tertullian. de Pallio, c. 1. & Salmasius in ib. Vid. Turnebi Adversaria, l. 29. c. 18. (a) Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 113.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Compare 2Ch 25:5. It will be seen that Uzziah…
Compare 2Ch 25:5. It will be seen that Uzziah had not added much to the military strength of the nation by his conquests. His army exceeds that of his father Amaziah by 7,500 men only.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. an army] R.V. a trained army.
13. an army] R.V. a trained army.
three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred] This total corresponds roughly with the 300,000 men who formed Amaziah’s army; 2Ch_25:5. Cp. note on 2Ch_14:8 (the forces of Asa and of Jehoshaphat).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Under their hand.—Or, at their side, meaning, under…
(13) Under their hand.—Or, at their side, meaning, under their command.
An army.—See margin. An armed force, or, warlike host (chêl çâbâ’); an expression only found besides in 1Ch_20:1.
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Three hundred thousand . . . five hundred.—This fairly agrees with the statement respecting the total of Amaziah’s army (300,000) in 2Ch_25:5.
That made war with mighty power.—Literally, a doer of battle with strength of might (sturdy strength, kôach chayil, a unique phrase). Each chief was thus at the head of about a hundred and twenty men, who formed his troop (gedûd, 2Ch_26:11). (Comp. the expression, “captains of hundreds.”) The actual number in each century may have varied, as in the Roman army.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain An army; Hebrew, abx lyje. "A force of host"…
An army; Hebrew, abx lyje. "A force of host" would render this expression, though by an ambiguous use of the word lyje, construct state of lyij. This verse gives the number of the body of the army proper, which shows it seven thousand five hundred more than that of Amaziah in the foregoing chapter (ver. 5).
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