2 Chronicles 13:14-22

14 When Judah turned around, behold, they were attacked both front and rear; so ¹they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.

15 Then the men of Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it was that God ²routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

16 When the sons of Israel fled before * Judah, ³God gave them into their hand.

17 Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 * * chosen men of Israel fell slain.

18 Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the sons of Judah conquered ⁴because they trusted in the LORD, the God of their fathers.

19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

Death of Jeroboam

20 Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the ⁵LORD struck him and ⁶he died.

21 But Abijah became powerful; and took fourteen * wives to himself, and became the father of twenty-two * sons and sixteen * daughters.

22 Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in ⁷the treatise of ⁸the prophet Iddo.

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2 Chronicles 13:14-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 13

This chapter begins with the reign of Abijah, 2Ch 13:1,2, gives an account of a battle between him and Jeroboam, previous to which Abijah made a speech to Jeroboam and his army, to vindicate his own cause, encourage his own soldiers, and intimidate the enemy, and dissuade them from fighting, 2Ch 13:3-12 and in the mean while Jeroboam laid an ambush for him, which greatly distressed him, 2Ch 13:13,14, nevertheless he obtained a complete victory over him, 2Ch 13:15-20, and the chapter is concluded with some account of his family and reign, 2Ch 13:21,22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. 2 Chronicles 14:11
2. 2 Chronicles 14:12
3. 2 Chronicles 16:8
4. 2 Chronicles 14:11
5. 1 Samuel 25:38
6. 1 Kings 14:20
7. 2 Chronicles 24:27
8. 2 Chronicles 9:29

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "the battle was before and behind them"
[b]. Lit "smote"
[c]. Lit "were strong"
[d]. Another reading is "Ephrain"
[e]. Heb "midrash"