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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 13:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 13:17 |
King James |
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Slain - The word means strictly "pierced," and will include both the killed and the wounded. It is translated "wounded" in Lam 2:12. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
five
(See Scofield) - (Co1 10:8). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Slain - five hundred thousand chosen men - Query, fifty thousand? This was a great slaughter: see the note on Ch2 13:3, where all these numbers are supposed to be overcharged. |
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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.