2 Chronicles 13:17

five hundred thousand Contrast this statement with 2 Chronicles 28:6, a hundred and twenty thousand in one day. The absence of the phrase in one dayfrom the present passage is significant. It seems probable, when we consider the small interest taken by the Chronicler in military matters as such and the consequent looseness of his language regarding them, that he may intend 500,000 to represent the losses, not of a single battle, but of the whole campaign. That some farther fighting took place is suggested by 2 Chronicles 13:19. Even so the losses are doubtless exaggerated.