2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ¹  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ²  equipped with spears and shields. ³ 

2 Chronicles 34:21

34:21 “Go, seek an oracle from ⁴  the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about ⁵  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ⁶  because our ancestors ⁷  have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!” ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 34:30

34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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¹ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.

² tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

³ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

⁴ tn Or “inquire of.”

⁵ tn Heb “concerning.”

⁶ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 32, 33).

⁸ tn Heb “by doing according to all that is written on this scroll.”