Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 13:17 in context
2 Chronicles 13:14–20
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When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15
Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
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Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
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Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
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Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. The LORD struck him, and he died.
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