2 Chronicles 13:17

Abijah and his army killed them with great slaughter; 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell dead.

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In The King James Version

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

In Context

16The people of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into the hand of Judah.

18In this way, the people of Israel were subdued at that time; the people of Judah won because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:12See, God is with us at our head, and his priests are here with the trumpets to sound an alarm against you. People of Israel, do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”

Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send emaciation among his elite warriors; 1 and under his glory there will be kindled a burning like fire. 1

Nahum 1:5The mountains shake in his presence, and the hills melt; 1 the earth collapses in his presence, indeed, the world and all people who live in it. 1

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 →

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