What does 2 Chronicles 26:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slingsf to cast stones."
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....
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 be...
CHAPTER 26 THE REIGN OF UZZIAH _ 1. The beginning of his reign (2 Chronicles 26:1)_ 2. Uzziah's success and fortifications (2 Chronicles 26:6) 3. Uzziah's sin and leprosy (2 Chronicles 26:16) 4. T...
THE REIGN OF UZZIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 14:21 to 2 Kings 15:7). The Chronicler amplifies considerably the account of this reign in 2 K. which is very meagre: his additions are in all probability bas...
HABERGEONS. bucklers, or coats of mail....
_throughout all the host_ R.V. EVEN FOR ALL THE HOST. _habergeons_ R.V. COATS OF MAIL. Skeat (_Cambridge Companion to the Bible_, p. 549) explains habergeon as "a smaller kind of _hauberk_, a coat of...
11. THE REIGN OF UZZIAH (Chapter 26) TEXT 2 Chronicles 26:1. And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2. He built Elot...
_THE WHOLE NUMBER OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR WERE TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
26:14 shields, (f-9) Small shields....
REIGN OF UZZIAH This chapter adds largely to the parallel account of Uzziah's reign in 2 Kings 15:1, and furnishes information respecting his wars, his military defences, and the cause of his leprosy...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 26 UZZIAH WINS WITH GOD’S HELP – 2 CHRONICLES 26:1-15 V1 Then all the p...
UZZIAH’S CAMPAIGNS, PUBLIC WORKS, AND MILITARY STRENGTH (2 Chronicles 26:6). This section is peculiar to the Chronicles. Although the book of Kings passes over the facts recorded here, they are essen...
וַ יָּכֶן֩ לָהֶ֨ם עֻזִּיָּ֜הוּ לְ כָל ־הַ צָּבָ֗א מָגִנִּ֤ים וּ רְמָחִים֙ וְ כֹ֣ובָעִ֔ים וְ...
UZZIAH, JOTHAM, AND AHAZ 2 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 28:1 AFTER the assassination of Amaziah, all the people of Judah took his son Uzziah, a lad of sixteen, called in the book...
GOD MADE HIM TO PROSPER 2 Chronicles 26:1 The reign of Uzziah was, to all appearance, extremely prosperous; but his personal character deteriorated, as though it could not bear an unbroken succession...
The story of Uzziah's long reign of fifty-two years is most interesting and remarkable. He was a man of strong character, and the early part of his occupancy of the throne was characterized by true pr...
During the time that Uzziah favored the service of the temple the Lord made his way prosperous in temporal things. This is the sense of what is meant by the Lord's helping him....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 THROUGH 26. Finally, the king perishes, according to Elijah's prediction. Disaster upon disaster falls upon Judah in consequence of this connection with t...
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 p...
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. Ver. 14. _And habergeons._] Back and breastpieces. Christ...
1 Vzziah succeeding, and reigning well in the dayes of Zechariah, prospereth. 16 Waxing proud, he inuadeth the Priests office, and is smitten with leprosie. 22 Hee dieth, and Iotham succeedeth him....
THE SUCCESS OF UZZIAH...
THE REIGN OF UZZIAH (vv.1-15) Uzziah, the son of Amaziah, took the throne of Judah when he was only 16 years old and reigned for 52 years. The first thing mentioned about him is the positive good w...
SLINGS TO CAST STONES: _ Heb._ stones of slings...
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 so...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 26:14 Uzziah H5818 prepared H3559 (H8686) army H6635 shields H4043 spears H7420 helmets H3553 armor H8302 bows H7198 slings H7050 stones H68 slings to cast stones - Heb. stones of slings...
CONTENTS: Accession of Uzziah. His successes and fame. CHARACTERS: God, Uzziah, Zechariah, Jotham, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The world's smiles are the devil's darts and prosperity ruin as many as adversi...
2 Chronicles 26:1. _Uzziah_ is called Azariah in 2 Kings 14:21. 2 Chronicles 26:5. _Uzziah sought God in the days of Zechariah._ This good priest being dead, as above, it must mean that Zechariah had...
2 CHRONICLES 26:1 Uzziah. Compare 2 Kings 15:2. The Chronicler emphasizes God’s blessing on Uzziah’s long reign (792–740 B.C.) but also the cause of his eventual downfall. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Uzziah’s character (2 Chronicles 26:1). “It is not too much to say that we are indebted to Chronicles for our whole conception of the character of Uz., and for nearly our whole knowle...
EXPOSITION The twenty-three verses of this chapter, entirely occupied with the career of Uzziah, have to be content with a parallel of nine verses only, viz. 2 Kings 14:21, 2 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 15:1...
Chapter 26 we find the beginning of the reign of Uzziah. Now he was only sixteen years old when he began to reign and he had one of the longest reigns outside of Manasseh, the longest reign of any kin...
1 Samuel 17:49; Judges 20:16...