2 CHRONICLES 28:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.”
The northern slaughter — 'For Pekah son of Remaliah killed one hundred twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors' (כי פקח בן רמליהו הרג בהודה מאה ועשׂרים אלף ביום אחד כולם בני חיל על כי עזבו את יהוה אלהי אבותם). The Chronicler attributes to Pekah of Israel the slaughter of 120,000 in a single day — an extraordinarily large number suggesting theological hyperbole. The causal phrase 'because they had forsaken the LORD' (על כי עזבו את יהוה) establishes religious apostasy as the underlying cause of military disaster.
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