Some have proposed changing the numbers here and in 2 Chronicles 13:17 to 40,000, 80,000, and 50,000, respectively. This suggestion is …

Set the battle in array. — Began the battle. Vulgate, “cumque iniisset Abia certanien” (1 Kings 20:14).

And Abijah set the battle in array, with an army of valiant man
of war, even four hundred thousand chose…

Jeroboam and his people, through apostasy and idolatry, deserved the severe punishment Abijah was permitted to inflict upon them. It appears from A…