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Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
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Verse 17. Five. Some Latin editions have 50,000, ( Calmet.) which number is found in some MSS. of Epiphanius. Hudson’s Josephus.—Hentenius has the same, and only remarks five MSS. which had the greater number. See verse 3. Bible.—We do not read of such a slaughter in any one battle. But Israel made no resistance, and God assisted the four hundred thousand. Menochius.—Valiant. Prot. “chosen.” See Calmet. 14:13. Bible.—So many were either slain or wounded. D.—Prot. intimate all were “slain.” Bible.
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