II Chronicles 13:3-18

The text before us is cause for a military strategist to be perplexed. What happened should not have happened. A force of 400,000 men of Judah should not have been able to slay 500,000 of the 800,000 mighty men of Israel (see v. 3 and 17).

Our military strategist would look at Abijah’s battle plan for Judah (v. 12) and Jeroboam’s battle plan for Israel (v. 13). He would reason that Jeroboam,…