2 Chronicles 13:17

17 So Abijah and his men defeated them decisively, and 500,000 of the best men of Israel were killed.

2 Chronicles 13:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 13:17

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter,
&c.] As they fled, pursuing them:

so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men;
such a slaughter as is not to be met with in any history, as Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 observes; though Abarbinel wonders he should say so, and affirms that he had read of larger numbers slain at once; but he is the only man that ever pretended to it; Jerom ^F20 makes the number but 50,000, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin ^F21, and Josephus Ben Gorion, as Abarbinel ^F23 relates; but the true Josephus, the Targum, and all the ancient versions, agree with the Hebrew text; more than half Jeroboam's army was cut off, and 100,000 more than Abijah had in his.

F19 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 11. sect. 3.
F20 Trad. Heb. fol. 84. M.
F21 So that of Sixtus V. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 294.
F23 Comment in 1. Reg. xv. 6. fol. 250. 3.

2 Chronicles 13:17 In-Context

15 and the men of Judah shouted. When they shouted, God attacked Jeroboam and all Israel in front of Abijah and Judah.

16 The Israelites fled from Judah's [army], and God handed them over to Judah.

17 So Abijah and his men defeated them decisively, and 500,000 of the best men of Israel were killed.

18 So the Israelites were humbled at that time, and the men of Judah won because they trusted the LORD God of their ancestors.

19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some of his cities: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.