2 Chronicles 17:19
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New International Version (©2011)
These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

New Living Translation (©2007)
These were the troops stationed in Jerusalem to serve the king, besides those Jehoshaphat stationed in the fortified towns throughout Judah.

English Standard Version (©2001)
These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
These are they who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified cities through all Judah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
These were the ones who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

International Standard Version (©2012)
These men served the king, and there were others whom the king garrisoned inside fortified cities throughout all of Judah.

NET Bible (©2006)
These were the ones who served the king, besides those whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These were the men who served the king in addition to those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
These served the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

American King James Version
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

American Standard Version
These were they that waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he had put in the walled cities, in all Juda.

Darby Bible Translation
These were they that waited on the king, besides those that the king had put in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

English Revised Version
These were they that waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

Webster's Bible Translation
These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

World English Bible
These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

Young's Literal Translation
These are those serving the king, apart from those whom the king put in the cities of fortress, in all Judah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-19 Jehoshaphat promotes religion in Judah, His prosperity. - Jehoshaphat found his people generally very ignorant, and therefore endeavoured to have them well taught. The public teaching of the word of God forms, in all ages, the great method of promoting the power of godliness. Thereby the understanding is informed, the conscience is awakened and directed. We have a particular account of Jehoshaphat's prosperity. But it was not his formidable army that restrained the neighbouring nations from attempting any thing against Israel, but the fear of God which fell upon them, when Jehoshaphat reformed his country, and set up a preaching ministry in it. The ordinances of God are more the strength and safety of a kingdom, than soldiers and weapons of war. The Bible requires use to notice the hand of God in every event, yet this is little regarded. But let all employ the talents they have: be faithful, even in that which is little. Set up the worship of God in your houses. The charge of a family is important. Why should you not instruct them as Jehoshaphat did his subjects, in the book of the law of the Lord. But be consistent. Do not recommend one thing, and practise another. Begin with yourselves. Seek to the Lord God of Israel, then call upon children and servants to follow your example.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - These waited; Hebrew, הַמְשָׁרְתִים, plur. piel part. of שָׁרַת. The verse states that this enormous fivefold army, with its five princes (counting, in our corrupt text, one million one hundred and sixty thousand), was the king's Jerusalem standing army, while other separate regiments or bands of troops were spread through all Judah, where they might be most needed for defence.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These waited on the king,.... Not this vast number of men at one time, but in course, as David's military men waited on him, 1 Chronicles 27:1 or each of these captains, with a proper number of men under them detached from the body; and they were all ready to obey the king's orders whenever he should have occasion for them:

besides those whom the king put into the fenced cities throughout Judah; and all together, the militia of the kingdom was very numerous and formidable.

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Jehoshaphat Reigns Well in Judah
…17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand. 18And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war. 19These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 17:2 He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.
2 Chronicles 17:18 next, Jehozabad, with 180,000 men armed for battle.