2 Chronicles 13 · Verse 17

2 Chronicles 13:17

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles 13:17, King James Version

2 Chronicles 13:17 in other translations

BSBThen Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
WEBAbijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
ASVAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
YLTand Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
DARBYAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
BBEAnd Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.
WebsterAnd Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

What does 2 Chronicles 13:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 13:13-17

13-17. But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them--The oration of Abijah, however animating an effect it might have produced on his own troops, was unheeded by the party to whom it was addressed; for while he was wasting time in useless words, Jeroboam had ordered a detachment of his men to move quietly round the base of the hill, so that when Abijah stopped speaking, he and his followers found…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 Slain - five hundred thousand chosen men - Query, fifty thousand? This was a great slaughter: see the note on 2Chr 13:3, where all these numbers are supposed to be overcharged.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

2 Chronicles 13:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּכּ֥וּvai.ya.Kuand they struck downH5221
בָהֶ֛םva.Hemamong them
אֲבִיָּ֥ה'a.vi.YahAbijahH29
וְעַמּ֖וֹve.'a.Moand people hisH5971
מַכָּ֣הma.Kaha strikingH4347
רַבָּ֑הra.BahgreatH7227
וַיִּפְּל֤וּvai.yi.pe.Luand they fellH5307
חֲלָלִים֙cha.la.LimslainH2491
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔לmi.Yis.ra.'Elof IsraelH3478
חֲמֵשׁ\־cha.mesh-fiveH2568
מֵא֥וֹתme.'othundred<s>H3967
אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousandH505
אִ֥ישׁ'ishmanH376
בָּחֽוּר\׃ba.ChurchosenH977

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 13:17

  • Isaiah 10:16-19

    Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:3

    And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

    Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  • Isaiah 37:36

    Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

  • Nahum 1:5

    The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:12

    And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6

    For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
five hundred.
3,12; 28:6; Isa 10:16-19; 37:36; Na 1:5; 1Co 10:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 2 Chronicles 13:16

    And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:17

    And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:18

    Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers.

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2 Chronicles 13:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Abías y su gente hacían en ellos gran mortandad; y cayeron heridos de Israel quinientos mil hombres escogidos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Abija et son peuple leur infligèrent une grande défaite, et il tomba d’Israël 500 000 hommes d’élite blessés à mort.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Abija und sein Volk richteten eine große Niederlage unter ihnen an, und es fielen von Israel Erschlagene, 500000 auserlesene Männer.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Percussit ergo eos Abia et populus ejus plaga magna: et corruerunt vulnerati ex Israël quingenta millia virorum fortium.