Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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Then 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.
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Then 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.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 13:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 14:12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
- Numbers 32:4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
- Joshua 6:16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!
- Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
- Joshua 11:8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
- Judges 4:15 Yahweh confused Sisera, all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled away on his feet.
- Judges 7:18-22 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’ ” So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!” They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
- 2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
- 2 Chronicles 20:21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”
- Psalms 47:1 Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
- Psalms 47:5 God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
- Psalms 118:4-7 Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever. Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom. Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
- Isaiah 37:36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, gave him the overthrow.
Or, gave him the overthrow.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a…
2Ch 13:15 Then 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.
Ver. 15. Then the men of Judah gave a shout.] Initio pugnae, de more antiquorum. Together with their loud outcries - first for fear perhaps, afterwards to affright their enemies - prayers went up to God. And see the happy effect thereof.
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God smote Jeroboam.] With a panic terror, with furies in his own conscience, and with some grievous disease, whereof, Nabal-like, at length he died. {2Ch 13:20}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By strengthening the hearts and hands of the men…
By strengthening the hearts and hands of the men of Judah, and taking away the spirits and power of their enemies; and, it may be, by some extraordinary assistance.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the children of Israel fled before Judah,.... Were…
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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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Gave a shout - It is unspeakable comfort, that…
Gave a shout - It is unspeakable comfort, that no stratagem or ambush can cut off our communication with heaven. To the cry of prayer they added the shout of faith, and so became more than conquerors.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 13:15. Then the men of Judah gave a…
2Ch 13:15. Then the men of Judah gave a shout — In confidence of victory, the priests animating them by sounding the trumpets, and giving them assurance of God’s presence with them. To the cry of prayer they added the shout of faith, and so became more than conquerors. God smote Jeroboam and all Israel — He struck him and his army with such terror and amazement, that, it appears, they could not strike a stroke, but fled with the greatest precipitation imaginable, and the conquerors gave no quarter; so that they put to the sword five hundred thousand chosen men; more (it is said) than ever we read of in any history to have been killed in one battle. But the battle was the Lord’s; who would thus chastise the idolatry of Israel, and own the house of David. But see the sad effects of division! It was the blood of Israelites which was thus shed like water by Israelites, while the heathen, their neighbours, to whom the name of Israel had formerly been a terror, cried, Aha, so would we have it.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Terrified. Septuagint, "struck;" God caused the victory to declare…
CHAPTER XIII.
Terrified. Septuagint, "struck;" God caused the victory to declare in favour of those who were only half the number. (Haydock)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. gave a shout] This shout had the character…
15. gave a shout] This shout had the character of a religions function; cp. Jos_6:10; Jos_6:16, where the same Heb. word is used.
God smote Jeroboam] Cp. 2Ch_14:12.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) Then the men of Judah gave a shout.—The…
(15) Then the men of Judah gave a shout.—The same verb (hâria‘) occurred in 2Ch_13:12, in the sense of sounding an alarm with the “trumpets of alarm” (t’rû‘ah.) Here our version gives the right sense. Immediately after the priests had blown a blast upon the trumpets, the warriors raised a shout or war- cry. (Comp. Jdg_7:18-20).
God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.—The wild panic which seized the host of Israel, when they heard the shout of their foes, is thus forcibly described. The same phrase is used in Jdg_20:35, and again by the chronicler (2Ch_14:12). (Comp. the Vulg., “perterruit Deus Jeroboam et omnem Israel.” Syriac, “the Lord routed,” &c.)
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