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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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SLAIN - The word means strictly “pierced,” and will include both
the killed and the wounded. It is translated “wounded” in
Lamentations 2:12....
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CHAPTER 13 THE REIGN OF ABIJAH
_ 1. The beginning of his reign (2 Chronicles 13:1)_
2. War with Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:3)
3. Death of Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:20)...
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THE REIGN OF ABIJAH. MOST of this section has nothing corresponding to
it in 1 K., though references to the history of this reign occur in 1
Kings 15:1.
2 Chronicles 13:1 f. _Cf._ 1 Kings 15:1 f., whe...
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_five hundred thousand_ Contrast this statement with 2 Chronicles
28:6, _a hundred and twenty thousand in one day_. The absence of the
phrase _in one day_from the present passage is significant. It se...
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3. THE REIGN OF ABIJAH. (Chapter 13)
TEXT
2 Chronicles 13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began
Abijah to reign over Judah. 2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem:
and his mother's name wa...
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_AND WHEN JUDAH LOOKED BACK, BEHOLD, THE BATTLE WAS BEFORE AND BEHIND:
AND THEY CRIED UNTO THE LORD, AND THE PRIESTS SOUNDED WITH THE
TRUMPETS._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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REIGN OF ABIJAH
This chapter expands the account given of Abijah (Abijam) in 1 Kings
15:1 by giving details of his war with Jeroboam, which is there only
briefly mentioned....
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2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE
The *Kingdom called Judah
2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 13
JUDAH AND *ISRAEL FIGHT A WAR – 2 CHRONICLES 13:1-19
v1
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SLEW THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER. — Literally, _Smote in them a
great smiting._ Numbers 11:33.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN. — Or more than half of
Jeroboam’s entire army.
It is hardly true to sa...
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וַ יַּכּ֥וּ בָהֶ֛ם אֲבִיָּ֥ה וְ
עַמֹּ֖ו מַכָּ
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REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL
2 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1;...
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In the reign of Abijah there was terrible war between Judah and
Israel. The king himself was evil, as the Book of the Kings declares.
Here, however, he was speaking and acting for his people. His addr...
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Five. Some Latin editions have 50,000, (Calmet) which number is found
in some manuscripts of Epiphanius. (Hudson's Josephus) --- Hentenius
has the same, and only remarks five manuscripts which had the...
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The event was truly awful. This slaughter is the greatest that we ever
read of in sacred history....
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 16.
In his wars with Jeroboam, Abijah stands entirely upon this ground,
and he is blessed.
Asa follows his steps; and, whether at peace, or while...
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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...
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1 Abiiah succeeding, maketh warre against Ieroboam.
4 Hee declareth the right of his cause.
13 Trusting in God, hee ouercommeth Ieroboam.
21 The wiues and children of Abiiah.
1 NOWE [NOTE: 1 Kings...
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And Abijah and his people, inflamed by the usual passions of civil
war, SLEW THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER; SO THERE FELL DOWN SLAIN OF
ISRAEL FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN....
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THE DEFEAT OF JEROBOAM...
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THE REIGN OF ABIJAH
(vv.1-22)
Jereboam outlived Rehoboam, though not for long (v.20). He died after
reigning 22 years (1 Kings 14:20), five years longer than Rehoboam.
But Abijah, son of Rehoboam, r...
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A vast number: but it hath been oft observed and recorded by sacred
and profane historians, that in those ancient times there were very
numerous armies, and ofttimes very great slaughters; and if this...
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2 Chronicles 13:17 Abijah H29 people H5971 struck H5221 (H8686) great
H7227 slaughter H4347 five H2568 hundred...
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FIVE
(_ See Scofield) - ( 1Co_ 10:8). _...
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CONTENTS: War between Abijah and Jeroboam. Death of Jeroboam.
CHARACTERS: God, Abijah, Jeroboam.
CONCLUSION: Right may indeed go by the worst for a time, but it will
prevail at last. The battle is o...
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2 Chronicles 13:3. _Four hundred thousand eight hundred thousand
chosen men._ This would seem incredible, did we not know that the
manner of the Hebrews at that time was to bring all their people from...
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_And behold, God Himself is with us for our captain _
GOD WITH US
We have here--
I. A mysterious doctrine.
II. A comforting truth.
III. A solemn fact. (_Bp. Montagu Villiers_.)
MAN’S EXTREMITY A...
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2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 13:13 Judah’s reliance on God
(vv. 2 Chronicles 13:14,...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter parallel to 1 Kings 15:1. Abijah
succeeds and wars against Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:1); declares the
right of his cause (2 Chronicles 13:4); his victory and end ...
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EXPOSITION
The career of _Abijah _begins and ends with this chapter, the
twenty-one verses of which are paralleled by only eight in 1 Kings
15:1. The difference is caused by the fact that the writer o...
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And he reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between
Abijah and Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:2).
Now Jeroboam, you remem...
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1 Corinthians 10:22; 2 Chronicles 13:12; 2 Chronicles 13:3; 2
Chronicles 28:6;...
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Was Abijah a wicked or a righteous king?
PROBLEM: According to 1 Kings 15:3, Abijah was a wicked king who
“walked in all the sins of his father.” However, here in 2
Chronicles he is represented as gi...