25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah 2 and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age 3 equipped with spears and shields. 4
1 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
2 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.
3 tn Heb “young men going out to war.”
4 tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”
3 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”