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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Chronicles 13:16

And the children of Israel fled before Iudah: and God deliuered them into their hand.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Faithfulness;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abijah;   Jeroboam;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abijah (abijam);   Jeroboam;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zemaraim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Music;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abijah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abijah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah the kingdom of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God handed them over to them.
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el fled before Yehudah; and God delivered them into their hand.
King James Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
English Standard Version
The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
New Century Version
When the army of Israel ran away from the men of Judah, God handed them over to Judah.
New English Translation
The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.
Amplified Bible
And the sons of Israel fled before Judah, and God handed over the sons of Israel to them.
New American Standard Bible
When the sons of Israel fled from Judah, God handed them over to them.
World English Bible
The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the children of Israel fledde before Iudah, & God deliuered them into their hande.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the sons of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
Berean Standard Bible
So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.
Contemporary English Version
The Israelites ran away, and God helped Judah's soldiers slaughter
Complete Jewish Bible
The people of Isra'el fled before Y'hudah, and God handed them over to them.
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
The men of Israel ran away from the men of Judah. God let the army from Judah defeat the army from Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Israel fled before Judah;
Good News Translation
The Israelites fled from the Judeans, and God let the Judeans overpower them.
Lexham English Bible
And the Israelites fled from before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel fled from the face of Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the children of Israel fled before Iuda, and God gaue them in to their handes,
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Israel fled before Iuda, and God delyuered them into their hande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel fled from before Juda; and the Lord delivered them into their hands.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the men of Israel fledden fro Juda, and God bitook hem in to the hondis of men of Juda.
Update Bible Version
And the sons 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.
New King James Version
And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
New Living Translation
The Israelite army fled from Judah, and God handed them over to Judah in defeat.
New Life Bible
The men of Israel ran away from Judah. God gave them into their hand.
New Revised Standard
The Israelites fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Israel fled from 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.
Revised Standard Version
The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave 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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the sons of Israel fled before Judah, God gave them into their hand.

Contextual Overview

13 But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them: so they were before Iudah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14 And when Iudah looked backe, behold, the battel was before and behind; and they cried vnto the Lord, and the Priests sounded with the trumpets. 15 Then the men of Iudah gaue a shout: and as the men of Iudah shouted, it came to passe that God smote Ieroboam and all Israel, before Abiiah and Iudah. 16 And the children of Israel fled before Iudah: and God deliuered them into their hand. 17 And Abiiah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fel downe slaine of Israel, fiue hundred thousand chosen men. 18 Thus the children of Israel were brought vnder at that time, and the children of Iudah preuailed, because they relied vpon the Lord God of their fathers. 19 And Abiiah pursued after Ieroboam, & tooke cities from him, Beth-el with the townes thereof, and Ieshanah with the townes thereof, and Ephrain with the townes thereof. 20 Neither did Ieroboam recouer strength againe in the dayes of Abiiah: and the Lord strooke him, & he died. 21 But Abiiah waxed mighty, and married fourteene wiues, and begate twentie and two sonnes, and sixteene daughters. 22 And the rest of the acts of Abiiah, and his waies, and his sayings, are written in the story of the Prophet Iddo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God delivered: Genesis 14:20, Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 3:3, Joshua 10:12, Joshua 21:44, Judges 1:4, Judges 11:21, 1 Samuel 23:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 18:7 - twenty thousand men Psalms 20:7 - but we Proverbs 24:22 - their Luke 11:17 - Every

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer, and in gold.
Genesis 13:3
And hee went on his iourneyes from the South, euen to Beth-el, vnto the place where his tent had bene at the beginning, betweene Beth-el and Hai:
Genesis 13:14
And the LORD said vnto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift vp now thine eyes, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbred.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelt in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar vnto the LORD.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Looke now towards heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And hee said vnto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and I will make nations of thee, and Kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 17:16
And I will blesse her, and giue thee a sonne also of her: yea I wil blesse her, and she shalbe a mother of nations; Kings of people shall be of her.
Genesis 17:20
And as for Ishmael, I haue heard thee: behold, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the 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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