13:17 Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 1 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead. 2
2 Chronicles 18:4
18:4 Then Jehoshaphat added, 3 “First seek an oracle from the Lord.” 4
1 tnHeb “struck them down with a great striking down.”
2 tnHeb “and [the] slain from Israel fell, five hundred thousand chosen men.”
3 tnHeb “and Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel.”
4 tnHeb “the word of the Lord.” Jehoshaphat is requesting a prophetic oracle revealing the Lord’s will in the matter and their prospects for success. For examples of such oracles, see 2 Sam 5:19, 23-24.