17 From Benjamin:(A)

Eliada, a valiant soldier, with 200,000 men armed with bows and shields;

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Asa had an army of three hundred thousand(A) men from Judah, equipped with large shields and with spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin, armed with small shields and with bows. All these were brave fighting men.

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21 “Mountains of Gilboa,(A)
    may you have neither dew(B) nor rain,(C)
    may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[a](D)
For there the shield of the mighty was despised,
    the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.(E)

22 “From the blood(F) of the slain,
    from the flesh of the mighty,
the bow(G) of Jonathan did not turn back,
    the sword of Saul did not return unsatisfied.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings

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