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2 Chronicles 26:14

King James Version (KJV)

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2 Chronicles 26:14

Verse 14 of 23

Scripture focus

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.

2 Chronicles 26:14 — KJV

Theological / Devotional

Slings to cast stones. Literally, “for stones of slings.” Perhaps stones for use in slings are meant.

Engines. These may have been similar to the later Roman catapult, or ballista.

Spread far abroad. Tiglath-pileser III has a number of references to “Azriau of Iauda” (see on v. 13).

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