Lìdaìzhìxià 14:13

13 Yàsā hé gēnsuí tāde jūn bīng zhuīgǎn tāmen , zhídào Jīlāĕr . Gǔshí rén beì shā de shèn duō , bùnéng zaì qiángshèng , yīnwei baì zaì Yēhéhuá yǔ tā jūn bīng miànqián . Yóudà rén jiù duó le xǔduō cáiwù ,

Lìdaìzhìxià 14:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 14:13

And Asa, and the people that [were] with him, pursued them
unto Gerar
A city of the Philistines, ( Genesis 20:1 ) ,

and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover
themselves;
they were thrown into such a fright, and into so much confusion, that they could not put themselves in order, and rally again; or there fell such a vast number of them, that there were scarce any remaining alive, which seems to be the sense of the words used:

for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host;
the army of Israel, which the Lord was, as it were, the Commander of, fought for, and led them in the pursuit, and gave them victory; or it may mean an host of angels, employed in destroying this great army; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions of ( 2 Chronicles 14:12 ) read,

``the angel of the Lord smote the Ethiopians:''

and they carried away very much spoil;
which they found in their camp, and with their slain; even much gold and silver, as Josephus ^F7 says.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ut supra, (Antiq. l. 8. c. 12.) sect. 2.

Lìdaìzhìxià 14:13 In-Context

11 Yàsā hū qiú Yēhéhuá tāde shén shuō , Yēhéhuá a , wéiyǒu nǐ néng bāngzhu ruǎnfuò de , shēng guō qiángshèng de . Yēhéhuá wǒmen de shén a , qiú nǐ bāngzhu wǒmen . yīnwei wǒmen yǎng laì nǐ , fèng nǐde míng lái gōngjī zhè dà jūn . Yēhéhuá a , nǐ shì wǒmen de shén , búyào róng rén shēng guō nǐ .

12 Yúshì Yēhéhuá shǐ Gǔshí rén baì zaì Yàsā hé Yóudà rén miànqián , Gǔshí rén jiù taópǎo le .

13 Yàsā hé gēnsuí tāde jūn bīng zhuīgǎn tāmen , zhídào Jīlāĕr . Gǔshí rén beì shā de shèn duō , bùnéng zaì qiángshèng , yīnwei baì zaì Yēhéhuá yǔ tā jūn bīng miànqián . Yóudà rén jiù duó le xǔduō cáiwù ,

14 Yòu dǎpò Jīlāĕr sìwéi de chéngyì . Yēhéhuá shǐ qízhōng de rén dōu shèn kǒngjù . Yóudà rén yòu jiāng suǒyǒude chéng lǔlǜe yī kōng , yīn qízhōng de cáiwù shèn duō ,

15 Yòu huǐhuaì le qún chù de quān , duó qǔ xǔduō de yáng hé luòtuo , jiù huí Yēlùsǎlĕng qù le .