2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ¹  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 ²  equipped with spears and shields. ³ 

2 Chronicles 25:7

25:7 But a prophet ⁴  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 26:11

26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

2 Chronicles 26:13

26:13 They commanded an army of 307,500 skilled and able warriors who were ready to defend ⁶  the king against his enemies.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ⁷  and worshiped ⁸  them.

[25:5]  ¹ 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.

[25:5]  ² tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

[25:5]  ³ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

[25:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”

[26:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “help.”

[33:3]  ¹⁰ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

[33:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “served.”