2 Chronicles 28:6

6 Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 in one day, all of them first-class soldiers, and all because they had deserted God, the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 28:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:6

For Pekah son of Remaliah
Who was at this time king of Israel:

slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day,
which were all

valiant men;
a great slaughter to be made at one time, and of valiant men, but not so great as that in ( 2 Chronicles 13:17 ) ,

because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers;
this was not a reason with Pekah for slaying them, he himself being an idolater, but why the Lord suffered them to be slain by him.

2 Chronicles 28:6 In-Context

4 He also joined in the activities of the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that flourished all over the place.

5 God, fed up, handed him over to the king of Aram, who beat him badly and took many prisoners to Damascus. God also let the king of Israel loose on him and that resulted in a terrible slaughter:

6 Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 in one day, all of them first-class soldiers, and all because they had deserted God, the God of their ancestors.

7 Furthermore, Zicri, an Ephraimite hero, killed the king's son Maaseiah, Azrikam the palace steward, and Elkanah, second in command to the king.

8 And that wasn't the end of it - the Israelites captured 200,000 men, women, and children, besides huge cartloads of plunder that they took to Samaria.