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Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 17:17

In 11 translations

BSB
From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 armed with bows and shields;
KJV
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
WEB
From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
ASV
And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
LSV
And of Benjamin, mighty men of valor: Eliada, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
YLT
And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs.
DBY
And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand, armed with bow and shield;
DRC
After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield.
GNV
And of Beniamin, Eliada a valiant man, and with him armed men with bowe and shielde two hundreth thousand.
JPS
and of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
LXXE
And out of Benjamin there was a mighty man of strength, even Eliada, and with him two hundred thousand archers and targeteers.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּמִ֨ן־בִּנְיָמִ֔ן גִּבּ֥וֹר חַ֖יִל אֶלְיָדָ֑ע וְעִמּ֛וֹ נֹֽשְׁקֵי־קֶ֥שֶׁת וּמָגֵ֖ן מָאתַ֥יִם אָֽלֶף׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐκ τοῦ Βενιαμὶν δυνατὸς δυνάμεως καὶ Ἐλιαδὰ, καὶ μετʼ αὐτοῦ τοξόται καὶ πελτασταὶ διακόσιαι χιλιάδες·

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  • 2 Samuel 1:21–22O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil. From the blood of the slain,…
  • 2 Chronicles 14:8Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

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