OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 26:11

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Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

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Verse 11. Doctor. Hebrew shoter. Septuagint “judge.” Prot. “ruler.” Bible.—The term is commonly understood of one who executes the sentence of the judge. But this employment does not suit a general, ( Calmet.) though such a one might well command. It many denote any “officer.” Bible.

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