2 Chronicles 13:13
“¶ But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them: so they were before Iudah, and the ambushment was behind them.”
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2 Chronicles 13:13 Context
11And they burne vnto the Lord euery morning, and euery euening, burnt sacrifices and sweete incense: the shew-bread also set they in order vpon the pure table, and the Candlesticke of golde with the lampes therof, to burne euery euening: for we keepe the charge of the Lord our God, but yee haue forsaken him. 12And behold, God himselfe is with vs for our captaine, and his Priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarme against you: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper. 13¶ But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them: so they were before Iudah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14And when Iudah looked backe, behold, the battel was before and behind; and they cried vnto the Lord, and the Priests sounded with the trumpets. 15Then the men of Iudah gaue a shout: and as the men of Iudah shouted, it came to passe that God smote Ieroboam and all Israel, before Abiiah and Iudah.
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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.
- King James Version
But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come from the rear, so that {Israel} was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)