2 Chronicles 13:16
◄  2 Chronicles 13:16  ►
New International Version (©2011)
The Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Israelite army fled from Judah, and God handed them over to Judah in defeat.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When the sons of Israel fled before Judah, God gave them into their hand.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God handed them over to them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When the descendants of Israel ran away from the army of Judah, God handed them over to the army of Judah.

NET Bible (©2006)
The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The Israelites fled from Judah's [army], and God handed them over to Judah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

American King James Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

American Standard Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hand.

Darby Bible Translation
And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

English Revised Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

World English Bible
The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel flee from the face of Judah, and God giveth them into their hand,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:1-22 Abijah overcomes Jeroboam. - Jeroboam and his people, by apostacy and idolatry, merited the severe punishment Abijah was permitted to execute upon them. It appears from the character of Abijah, 1Ki 15:3, that he was not himself truly religious, yet he encouraged himself from the religion of his people. It is common for those that deny the power of godliness, to boast of the form of it. Many that have little religion themselves, value it in others. But it was true that there were numbers of pious worshippers in Judah, and that theirs was the more righteous cause. In their distress, when danger was on every side, which way should they look for deliverance unless upward? It is an unspeakable comfort, that our way thither is always open. They cried unto the Lord. Earnest prayer is crying. To the cry of prayer they added the shout of faith, and became more than conquerors. Jeroboam escaped the sword of Abijah, but God struck him; there is no escaping his sword.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Israel fled before Judah,.... Were in such a fright and consternation, that they could not stand their ground, or engage at all; but took to flight immediately:

and God delivered them into their hand; to be taken and slain by them.

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Civil War against Jeroboam
…15Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. 17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. …

2 Chronicles 13:17 Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel's able men.
2 Chronicles 16:8 Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.