2 Kongebok 14:12

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Og Judas menn blev slått av Israels menn, og de flyktet hver til sitt hjem;

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was put to the worse: Heb. was smitten

they fled: 1 Samuel 4:10, 2 Samuel 18:17, 1 Kings 22:36

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:8 - for Israel Amos 6:13 - Have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel,.... Could not face them; but, as Josephus d says, a sudden fear and consternation seized them, and before they joined battle with the Israelites, turned their backs:

and they fled every man to their tents; to their cities, as the Targum, and left their king alone.

d Antiqu. l. 9. c. 9. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The author of Chronicles notes that Amaziah’s obstinacy, and his consequent defeat and captivity, were judgments upon him for an idolatry into which he had fallen after his conquest of Edom 2Ch 25:14, 2 Chronicles 25:20.