Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.
New American Standard Bible
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
King James Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Holman Bible
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 choice men of Israel were killed.
International Standard Version
Abijah and his army defeated them in a tremendous slaughter that resulted in 500,000 special forces from Israel being slain.
A Conservative Version
And Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter. So there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
American Standard Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Amplified
Abijah and his people inflicted on them a great defeat, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
Darby Translation
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Julia Smith Translation
And Abijah and his people will strike upon them a great blow: and there will fall wounded from Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
King James 2000
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel [that] fell [were] five hundred thousand chosen men.
Modern King James verseion
And Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter. And there fell down dead five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Abijah and his people slew a great slaughter of them: so that there were stricken down dead of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
NET Bible
Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
New Heart English Bible
Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
The Emphasized Bible
And Abijah and his people smote among them with a great smiting, - and there fell down slain, of Israel, five hundred thousand chosen men.
Webster
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
World English Bible
Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Interlinear
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 13:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abijah And Civil War
16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands. 17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword. 18 So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 13:3
And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.
2 Chronicles 13:12
And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.
2 Chronicles 28:6
For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Isaiah 10:16-19
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
Nahum 1:5
The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?