Bible Verses About Armies: Standing armies

And Jehoshaphat is going on and becoming very great, and he buildeth in Judah palaces and cities of store,

and he hath much work in cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty of valour, are in Jerusalem.

And these are their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs.

And at his hand is Jehohanan the head, and with him two hundred and eighty chiefs.

And at his hand is Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Jehovah, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valour.

And of Benjamin: mighty of valour, Eliada, and with him, armed with bow and shield, two hundred chiefs.

And at his hand is Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty chiefs, armed ones of the host.

These are those serving the king, apart from those whom the king put in the cities of fortress, in all Judah.

And Uzziah hath a force, making war, going forth to the host, by troops, in the number of their reckoning by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Masseiah the officer, by the hand of Hananiah one of the heads of the king.

The whole number of heads of the fathers of the mighty ones of valour is two thousand and six hundred;

and by their hand is the force of the host, three hundred thousand, and seven thousand, and five hundred warriors, with mighty power to give help to the king against the enemy.

And Uzziah prepareth for them, for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, even to stones of the slings.

And he maketh in Jerusalem inventions--a device of an inventor--to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goeth out unto a distance, for he hath been wonderfully helped till that he hath been strong.