מֵאָה

Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

He also hired 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

Amaziah asked the man of God, “What should I do about the hundred talents I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God replied, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.

Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.

For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.

His officials also contributed willingly to the people and priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officials of the house of God, gave the priests 2,600 Passover offerings and 300 bulls.

Additionally, Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, as well as Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites 5,000 Passover offerings and 500 bulls.

And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

…30 gold bowls, 410 matching silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.

In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

…the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;

…the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;

…the descendants of Arah, 775;

…the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;

…the descendants of Elam, 1,254;

…the descendants of Zattu, 945;

…the descendants of Zaccai, 760;

…the descendants of Bani, 642;

…the descendants of Bebai, 623;

…the descendants of Azgad, 1,222;

…the descendants of Adonikam, 666;

…the descendants of Adin, 454;

…the descendants of Bezai, 323;

…the descendants of Jorah, 112;

…the descendants of Hashum, 223;

…the men of Bethlehem, 123;

…the men of Anathoth, 128;

…the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

…the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;

…the men of Michmash, 122;

…the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

…the descendants of Magbish, 156;

…the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;

…the descendants of Harim, 320;

…the men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725;

…the men of Jericho, 345;

…and the descendants of Senaah, 3,630.

The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;

…the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.