Lìdaìzhìxià 25:5

5 Yà mǎ xiè zhāo jù Yóudà rén , àn zhe Yóudà hé Biànyǎmǐn de zōngzú shèlì qiā fú zhǎng , bǎifūzhǎng , yòu shǔ diǎn rén shù , cóng èr shí suì yǐwaì , néng ná qiāng ná dùnpái chū qù dǎzhàng de jīng bīng gōng yǒu sān shí wàn .

Lìdaìzhìxià 25:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 25:5

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together
The inhabitants thereof:

and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds,
according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and
Benjamin;
he divided the people, according to their families throughout his kingdom, into thousands and hundreds, and out of their respective families appointed captains over them:

and he numbered them from twenty years old and above;
the usual age men were numbered at for war, to the fiftieth, according to Josephus; the Roman law ^F1 obliged none to be soldiers after fifty, nor might any be dismissed before ^F2; the age of military men with the Romans was from seventeen to forty six, or, as some, forty five; but with the Persians from twenty as here to fifty ^F3:

and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to
war, that could handle spear and shield;
which shows that their number was greatly decreased since the times of Jehoshaphat, ( 2 Chronicles 17:14-18 ) , occasioned by the wars under Jehoram, Ahaziah, and Joash; some copies of the Vulgate Latin ^F4 have only 30,000.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Seneca de Brevitate Vitae, c. 20.
F2 Liv. Hist. l. 42. c. 33.
F3 Alex. ab. Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 20.
F4 Ed. of Sixtus V. the Lovain and MSS. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 295.

Lìdaìzhìxià 25:5 In-Context

3 Guó yī jiāndéng , jiù bǎ shā tā fù wáng de chénpú shā le ,

4 Què méiyǒu zhìsǐ tāmende érzi , shì zhào Móxī lǜfǎ shū shàng Yēhéhuá suǒ fēnfu de shuō , bùkĕ yīn zǐ shā fù , yĕ bùkĕ yīn fù shā zǐ , gèrén yào wèi bĕn shēn de zuì ér sǐ .

5 Yà mǎ xiè zhāo jù Yóudà rén , àn zhe Yóudà hé Biànyǎmǐn de zōngzú shèlì qiā fú zhǎng , bǎifūzhǎng , yòu shǔ diǎn rén shù , cóng èr shí suì yǐwaì , néng ná qiāng ná dùnpái chū qù dǎzhàng de jīng bīng gōng yǒu sān shí wàn .

6 Yòu yòng yínzi yī bǎi/bó tā lián dé , cóng Yǐsèliè zhāo mù le shí wàn dà néng de yǒng shì .

7 Yǒu yī gè shén rén lái jiàn yà mǎ xiè , duì tā shuō , wáng a , búyào shǐ Yǐsèliè de jūn bīng yǔ nǐ tóng qù , yīnwei Yēhéhuá bù yǔ Yǐsèliè rén Yǐfǎlián de hòuyì tóng zaì .