Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 13:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abijah And Civil War
16 And the sons of Israel flee from the face of Judah, and God giveth them into their hand, 17 and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 18 And the sons of Israel are humbled at that time, and the sons of Judah are strong, for they have leant on Jehovah, God of their fathers.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Chronicles 13:3
And Abijah directeth the war with a force of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men, and Jeroboam hath set in array with him battle, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty of valour.
2 Chronicles 13:12
And lo, with us -- at our head -- is God, and His priests and trumpets of shouting to shout against you; O sons of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah, God of your fathers, for ye do not prosper.'
2 Chronicles 28:6
And Pekah son of Remaliah slayeth in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day (the whole are sons of valour), because of their forsaking Jehovah, God of their fathers.
Isaiah 10:16-19
Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.
Isaiah 37:36
And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.
Nahum 1:5
Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up is the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it.
1 Corinthians 10:22
do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?