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- 2 Chronicles
- Chapter 13
- Verse 16
2 Chronicles 13:16
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
We do not find that Jeroboam offered to make any answer at all to Abijah's speech. Though it was much to the purpose, he resolved not to heed it, and therefore he heard it as though he heard it not.…
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