KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
WEB World English Bible
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 26
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king’s captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.
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.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.
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.
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:
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וַיָּכֶן֩H3559 · kunto establish: prepareלָהֶ֨םH9038 · hemthemעֻזִּיָּ֜הוּH5818 · uz.ziy.yahUzziahלְכָל־H3605 · kolallהַצָּבָ֗אH6635 · tsa.vaarmyמָגִנִּ֤יםH4043 · ma.genshieldוּרְמָחִים֙H7420 · ro.machspearוְכ֣וֹבָעִ֔יםH3553 · ko.vahelmetוְשִׁרְיֹנ֖וֹתH8302 · sir.yahlanceוּקְשָׁת֑וֹתH7198 · qe.shetbowוּלְאַבְנֵ֖יH68 · e.venstoneקְלָעִֽים׃H7050 · qe.lasling
Cross-references
Judges 20:16Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.1 Samuel 17:49And 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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