2 Chronicles 13:19

19 And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

2 Chronicles 13:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 13:19

And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam
As he and his army fled:

and took cities from him;
the following ones:

Bethel with the towns thereof;
the villages adjoining to it; here one of the calves was set up, which either Jeroboam took care to remove before this place fell into the hands of Abijah, or Abijah let it remain, and did not destroy it:

and Jeshanah with the towns thereof;
which Reland ^F24 thinks is the same that is called by Jerom ^F25 Jethaba:

and Ephraim with the towns thereof;
a city so called, thought to be the same that is mentioned in the passage, (See Gill on John 11:54); it is here called, in the Targum, Ephron; so Jerom ^F26 calls it, and says it was Sichem.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Palestin. Illustrat. p. 861.
F25 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. L.
F26 Trad. Heb. fol. 85. A.

2 Chronicles 13:19 In-Context

17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

18 So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

19 And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

20 And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

21 But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.