2nd Chronicles Chapter 13 verse 13 Holy Bible
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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But Jeroboam had put some of his men to make a surprise attack on them from the back, so some were facing Judah and others were stationed secretly at their back.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
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And Jeroboam hath brought round the ambush to come in from behind them, and they are before Judah, and the ambush `is' behind them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-16. - These verses purport to tell how Jeroboam, with all his vastly preponderating numbers (ver. 3), left nothing undone to secure the victory, and resorted even to the ambushment described; how, on the other hand, Abijah and his people honoured God by their cry and confident shout, and were delivered because they trusted in him (1 Samuel 17:45-47), and as follows, ver. 18, "relied upon the Lord God of their fathers."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) But Jeroboam caused . . .--Now Jeroboam had brought the ambush round, in order to attack (literally, approach) them in the rear (literally, from behind them; so they (Jeroboam and his main body) were in front of Judah, and the ambush was in their rear.The ambush.--The troops which Jeroboam had detached for that service.
