2 Chronicles 26:14

14 Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

2 Chronicles 26:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 26:14

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host
For every soldier in the army:

shields and spears;
defensive and offensive weapons, the one to cover and protect their bodies, the other to push and pierce their enemies:

and helmets, and habergeons;
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:

and bows;
to shoot arrows out of:

and slings to cast stones;
at which the Benjaminites formerly were very expert.

2 Chronicles 26:14 In-Context

12 The whole number of the heads of ancestral houses of mighty warriors was two thousand six hundred.

13 Under their command was an army of three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

14 Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

15 In Jerusalem he set up machines, invented by skilled workers, on the towers and the corners for shooting arrows and large stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped until he became strong.

16 But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to make offering on the altar of incense.