2 Chronicles 13:16
The soldiers of Israel fled from the soldiers of Judah, and God enabled the army of Judah to defeat them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
In Context
17Abijah and his troops struck the capable soldiers of Israel and killed 500,000 of them.
Cross References
Genesis 14:20The Supreme God has enabled you to defeat [MTY] your enemies, so we should praise/thank him.” Then Abram gave to Melchizedek a tenth part of all the things he had captured.
Deuteronomy 3:3“So Yahweh enabled us to defeat [IDM] King Og and all his army. We killed them all; we did not allow any of them to remain alive.
Joshua 21:44Just like he had promised our ancestors, Yahweh allowed them/us to have peace with the enemies that surrounded them/us. Yahweh enabled the Israelis/us to defeat their/our enemies.
Judges 11:21But Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship, enabled the Israeli army to defeat [IDM] Sihon and his army. Then they ◄took possession of/started to live in► all the land where the Amor people-group had lived.
2 Chronicles 16:8The huge armies from Ethiopia and Libya with all their chariots and soldiers riding on horses were certainly very powerful. But when you relied on Yahweh, he enabled your army to defeat them.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 13:14-22
Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 957.) 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord , and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:… Read the whole commentary →