2 Chronicles 25:5

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together ,.... The inhabitants thereof:

and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin ; he divided the people, according to their families throughout his kingdom, into thousands and hundreds, and out of their respective families appointed captains over them:

and he numbered them from twenty years old and above ; the usual age men were numbered at for war, to the fiftieth, according to Josephus; the Roman law F1 Seneca de Brevitate Vitae, c. 20. obliged none to be soldiers after fifty, nor might any be dismissed before F2 Liv. Hist. l. 42. c. 33. ; the age of military men with the Romans was from seventeen to forty six, or, as some, forty five; but with the Persians from twenty as here to fifty F3 Alex. ab. Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 20. :

and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield ; which shows that their number was greatly decreased since the times of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 17:14 , occasioned by the wars under Jehoram, Ahaziah, and Joash; some copies of the Vulgate Latin F4 Ed. of Sixtus V. the Lovain and MSS. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 295. have only 30,000.