John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 13:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter, etc.] 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 f44 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 f45 makes the number but 50,000, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin f46, and Josephus Ben Gorion, as Abarbinel f47 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.

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