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New Living Translation

2 Chronicles 13:17

Abijah and his army inflicted heavy losses on them; 500,000 of Israel's select troops were killed that day.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Faithfulness;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abijah;   Jeroboam;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abijah (abijam);   Jeroboam;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zemaraim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Music;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abijah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abijah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah the kingdom of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Number;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Samuel ben Ammi;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and five hundred thousand fit young men of Israel were killed.
Hebrew Names Version
Aviyah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Yisra'el five hundred thousand chosen men.
King James Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
English Standard Version
Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.
New Century Version
Abijah's army struck Israel so that five hundred thousand of Israel's best men were killed.
New English Translation
Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
Amplified Bible
Abijah and his people inflicted on them a great defeat, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
New American Standard Bible
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell slain.
World English Bible
Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Abiiah and his people slewe a great slaughter of them, so that there fel downe wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand chosen men.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Abijah and his people struck them down with a great slaughter, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 choice men of Israel fell slain.
Contemporary English Version
five hundred thousand enemy troops.
Complete Jewish Bible
Aviyah and his army inflicted a great slaughter on them — 500,000 of Isra'el's select soldiers fell dead.
Darby Translation
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Easy-to-Read Version
Abijah's army greatly defeated the army of Israel, and 500,000 of the best men of Israel were killed.
George Lamsa Translation
And Abijah slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand young men.
Good News Translation
Abijah and his army dealt the Israelites a crushing defeat—half a million of Israel's best soldiers were killed.
Lexham English Bible
And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel that fell were five hundred thousand chosen men.
Literal Translation
And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow, and five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell slain.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that Abia & his people dyd a greate slaughter vpon them, and there fell wounded of Israel fyue hundreth thousande chosen men.
American Standard Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Abia and his people slue a great slaughter of them: There fell downe wounded of Israel fiue hundred thousand chosen men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
King James Version (1611)
And Abiiah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fel downe slaine of Israel, fiue hundred thousand chosen men.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter: and there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand mighty men.
English Revised Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Abia and his puple smoot hem with a greet wounde, and there felden doun of hem fyue hundrid thousynde of stronge men woundid.
Update Bible Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
New King James Version
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaughter; so five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain.
New Life Bible
Abijah and his people killed many of them. There were 500,000 chosen men of Israel killed.
New Revised Standard
Abijah and his army defeated them with great slaughter; five hundred thousand picked men of Israel fell slain.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Abijah and his people smote among them with a great smiting, - and there fell down slain, of Israel, five hundred thousand chosen men.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.
Revised Standard Version
Abi'jah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand picked men.
Young's Literal Translation
and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

Contextual Overview

13 Meanwhile, Jeroboam had secretly sent part of his army around behind the men of Judah to ambush them. 14 When Judah realized that they were being attacked from the front and the rear, they cried out to the Lord for help. Then the priests blew the trumpets, 15 and the men of Judah began to shout. At the sound of their battle cry, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel and routed them before Abijah and the army of Judah. 16 The Israelite army fled from Judah, and God handed them over to Judah in defeat. 17 Abijah and his army inflicted heavy losses on them; 500,000 of Israel's select troops were killed that day. 18 So Judah defeated Israel on that occasion because they trusted in the Lord , the God of their ancestors. 19 Abijah and his army pursued Jeroboam's troops and captured some of his towns, including Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their surrounding villages. 20 So Jeroboam of Israel never regained his power during Abijah's lifetime, and finally the Lord struck him down and he died. 21 Meanwhile, Abijah of Judah grew more and more powerful. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22 The rest of the events of Abijah's reign, including his words and deeds, are recorded in The Commentary of Iddo the Prophet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

five hundred: 2 Chronicles 13:3, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 28:6, Isaiah 10:16-19, Isaiah 37:36, Nahum 1:5, 1 Corinthians 10:22

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:20 - had made Judges 8:10 - fell an hundred 1 Samuel 4:10 - a very great 2 Samuel 18:7 - twenty thousand men 1 Kings 12:19 - Israel 1 Kings 20:29 - an hundred thousand 2 Chronicles 15:6 - nation Proverbs 17:14 - beginning Proverbs 18:19 - brother Proverbs 24:22 - their Luke 11:17 - Every James 3:6 - the tongue

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
Genesis 13:17
Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter,.... 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 s 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 t makes the number but 50,000, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin u, and Josephus Ben Gorion, as Abarbinel w 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.

s Antiqu. l. 8. c. 11. sect. 3. t Trad. Heb. fol. 84. M. u So that of Sixtus V. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 294. w Comment in 1. Reg. xv. 6. fol. 250. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Slain - The word means strictly “pierced,” and will include both the killed and the wounded. It is translated “wounded” in Lamentations 2:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 13:17. Slain - five hundred thousand chosen men. — Query, fifty thousand? This was a great slaughter: 2 Chronicles 13:3, where all these numbers are supposed to be overcharged.


 
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