{"id":11758,"date":"2022-09-24T04:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-2614\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:11:49","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-2614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-2614\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 26:14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 14<\/strong>. <em> throughout all the host<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> even for all the host<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> habergeons<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> coats of mail<\/strong>. Skeat ( <em> Cambridge Companion to the Bible<\/em>, p. 549) explains habergeon as &ldquo;a smaller kind of <em> hauberk<\/em>, a coat of mail covering the neck and breast.&rdquo; Cp. <span class='bible'>Neh 4:16<\/span> (with Ryle&rsquo;s note).<\/p>\n<p><em> slings to cast stones<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> stones for slinging<\/strong>. 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 (<span class='bible'>1Sa 17:40<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">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 <span class='bible'>Jdg 20:16<\/span>, and by the ten tribes, a century before Uzziah, from <span class='bible'>2Ki 3:25<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>14<\/span>. <I><B>Shields, and spears<\/B><\/I>] 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.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host<\/strong>,&#8230;. For every soldier in the army:<\/p>\n<p><strong>shields and spears<\/strong>; defensive and offensive weapons, the one to cover and protect their bodies, the other to push and pierce their enemies:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and helmets, and habergeons<\/strong>; the first of these were a covering for the head in the day of battle, and the other coats of mail, to defend the body:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and bows<\/strong>; to shoot arrows out of:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and slings to cast stones<\/strong>; at which the Benjaminites formerly were very expert.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(14) <strong>Throughout.<\/strong>To <em>wit, for all the army,<\/em> an apposition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shields, and spears<\/strong> (<em>rm<\/em><em>c<\/em><em>hm,<\/em> lances), <strong>and helmets, and habergeons<\/strong> (<em>shirynth,<\/em> coats of mail cuirasses ).For the heavy armed.<\/p>\n<p>Habergeon is an old English word, meaning armour for neck and breast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bows, and slings . . . stones.<\/strong>For the light armed. (See margin.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slings to cast stones.<\/strong>Literally, <em>stones of slings<\/em> (the <em>le<\/em> is the mark of the <em>accusative<\/em>)<em>.<\/em> They are mentioned to show that the equipment was complete.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 14<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Habergeons <\/strong> Coats of mail. See note on <span class='bible'>1Sa 17:5<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 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.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 14. <strong> And habergeons.<\/strong> ] 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: &#8220;Resist the devil and he will flee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>habergeons = bucklers, or coats of mail. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>slings to cast stones: Heb. stones of slings, Jdg 20:16, 1Sa 17:49 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Exo 28:32 &#8211; as it were 2Ch 11:12 &#8211; he put shields 2Ch 32:5 &#8211; darts Job 41:29 &#8211; General<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. 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 &ldquo;a smaller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-2614\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 26:14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}