2 Chronicles 13:17
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter,.... As they fled, pursuing them:
so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men; such a slaughter as is not to be met with in any history, as Josephus {s} observes; though Abarbinel wonders he should say so, and affirms that he had read of larger numbers slain at once; but he is the only man that ever pretended to it; Jerom {t} makes the number but 50,000, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin {u}, and Josephus Ben Gorion, as Abarbinel {w} relates; but the true Josephus, the Targum, and all the ancient versions, agree with the Hebrew text; more than half Jeroboam's army was cut off, and 100,000 more than Abijah had in his.
{s} Antiqu. l. 8. c. 11. sect. 3.
{t} Trad. Heb. fol. 84. M.
{u} So that of Sixtus V. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 294.
{w} Comment in 1. Reg. xv. 6. fol. 250. 3.