2 Chronicles 26:14

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Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Uzziah prepared for them—for all the army—shields, and spears, and helmets, and armor, and bows, and stones of slings.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    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.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    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.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Vzziah prepared them throughout all the hoste, shieldes, and speares, and helmets, and brigandines, and bowes, and stones to sling.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    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.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Uzziah prepares for them, for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, even to stones of the slings.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Uzziah prepared for them—for all the army—shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Uzziah prepared for them—for all the army—shields, and spears, and helmets, and armor, and bows, and stones of slings.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Uzziah prepared for them, throughout the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and even slinging-stones.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones for the whole army.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    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.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    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.

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וְכ֣וֹבָעִ֔ים
kôwbaʻ
H3553
“and · helmets”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to be high or rounded

TWOT: 960

helmet
  1. וַיָּכֶן֩ kûwn H3559 “and · to be established” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. עֻזִּיָּ֜הוּ ʻUzzîyâh H5818 “Uzziah” Noun, Proper
  3. לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. הַצָּבָ֗א tsâbâʼ H6635 “the · army” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  5. מָגִנִּ֤ים mâgên H4043 “shields” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
  6. וּרְמָחִים֙ rômach H7420 “and · spears” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. וְשִׁרְיֹנ֖וֹת shiryôwn H8302 “and · body armor” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
  8. וּקְשָׁת֑וֹת qesheth H7198 “and · bows” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  9. וּלְאַבְנֵ֖י ʼeben H68 “and · to/for · stones of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  10. קְלָעִֽים qelaʻ H7050 “slings” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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12
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11
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְכ֣וֹבָעִ֔ים helmet H3553 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְכ֣וֹבָעִ֔ים helmet H3553 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 10 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיָּכֶן֩ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
  • 1 Samuel 17:49 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 26:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּכֶן֩ לָהֶ֨ם עֻזִּיָּ֜הוּ לְכָל הַצָּבָ֗א מָגִנִּ֤ים וּרְמָחִים֙ וְכ֣וֹבָעִ֔ים וְשִׁרְיֹנ֖וֹת וּקְשָׁת֑וֹת וּלְאַבְנֵ֖י קְלָעִֽים

Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 26:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἑτοιμάζω αὐτός οζιας πᾶς ὁ δύναμις θυρεός καί δόρυ καί περικεφαλαία καί θώραξ καί τόξον καί σφενδόνη εἰς λίθος

And Ozias prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, and slings for stones.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 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.

Ver. 14. And habergeons.] Back and breastpieces. Christ appointeth his soldiers no armour for the back, {Eph 6:10-17} because they may not at all turn their backs upon the enemy: "Resist the devil and he will flee."

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) Throughout.—To wit, for all the army, an apposition.

Shields, and spears (rĕmâchîm, “lances”), and helmets, and habergeons (shiryônôth, “coats of mail” “cuirasses “).—For the heavy armed.

“Habergeon” is an old English word, meaning armour for neck and breast.

Bows, and slings . . . stones.—For the light armed. (See margin.)

Slings to cast stones.—Literally, stones of slings (the le is the mark of the accusative). They are mentioned to show that the equipment was complete.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. 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 mail covering the neck and breast.” Cp. Neh_4:16 (with Ryle’s note).

slings to cast stones] R.V. stones for slinging. Such stones needed to be carefully chosen, for they had to be smooth and of a suitable size. A water-course was the most suitable place for finding them (1Sa_17:40).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

When he was strong,.... Became great and powerful, through his victories, the enlargement of his dominions, and having a numerous army, and these well accoutred, and many fortified cities and towers:

his heart was lifted up to his destruction; he grew vain and proud, elated with his flourishing circumstances, which issued in his ruin:

for he transgressed against the Lord his God; who had helped him, and made him so great, and had bestowed so many favours upon him; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord his God;''what his transgression was, follows:

and went into the temple of the Lord; the holy place, into which none but the priests might enter:

to burn incense upon the altar of incense; which stood there.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Jdg 20:16, and by the ten tribes, a century before Uzziah, from 2Ki 3:25.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

14. Habergeons — Coats of mail. See note on 1Sa_17:5.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Habergeons slings to cast stones. Revised Version right in rendering, coats of mail and stones for slinging. On the Israelites" employment of the sling, note Jud_1:20:16; 1Sa_17:40; 2Ki_3:25.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Uzziah prepared for them

"Uzziah provided for them"

helmets

A helmet is a protective head covering.

coats of mail

This is a covering for the body made of metal links or chains.

he built machines that were designed by skillful men

Here "he built machines" represents Uzziah commanding his workers to build them. AT: "his workers built machines that were designed by skillful men" (See: Metonymy)

the battlements

These were the corners of the city walls where soldiers could fight from.

he was greatly helped

This can be stated in active form. AT: "God greatly helped him" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

shield

spear

bow and arrow

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Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kôwbaʻ (“helmet”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word kôwbaʻ carries the sense “helmet.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 1 Samuel 17:5, which shares the word «helmet», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «וַיָּכֶן֩» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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