2 Chronicles 13:17

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 F19 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 11. sect. 3. 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 F20 Trad. Heb. fol. 84. M. makes the number but 50,000, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin F21 So that of Sixtus V. in James's Corruption of the Fathers, p. 294. , and Josephus Ben Gorion, as Abarbinel F23 Comment in 1. Reg. xv. 6. fol. 250. 3. 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.