Discovery Box2 Chronicles 13:12-17
Context13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. 1 You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, 2 for you will not win!”
13:13 Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind. 3 The main army was in front of the Judahite army; 4 the ambushers were behind it. 13:14 The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. 5 So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets, 13:15 and the men of Judah gave 6 the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 13:16 The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, 7 and God handed them over to the men of Judah. 8 13:17 Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 9 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead. 10
[13:12] 1 tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”
[13:12] 2 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).
[13:13] 3 tn Heb “and Jeroboam had caused to circle around an ambush to come from behind them.”
[13:14] 5 tn Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”
[13:15] 6 tn Heb “shouted out.”
[13:16] 8 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:17] 9 tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”
[13:17] 10 tn Heb “and [the] slain from Israel fell, five hundred thousand chosen men.”
