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2 Chronicles 13:14 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 13 · verse 14
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.2 Chronicles 13:14 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 13:14 in context
12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- trumpetschătsôtsᵉrâha trumpetH2689 →
- priestskôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- soundedchâtsarto trumpetH2690 →
- battlemilchâmâha battleH4421 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- behindʼâchôwrthe hinder partH268 →
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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. He came to fight, not to dispute. The longest sword, he thought, would determine the matter, not the better cause.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-22