SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:25
Y viniendo Josafat y su pueblo a despojarlos, hallaron en ellos muchas riquezas, y cuerpos muertos, y vestidos y vasos preciosos, los cuales tomaron para sí, tantos , que no los podían llevar; tres días duró el despojo, porque era mucho.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 20:25
Verse 25. Both riches with the dead bodies] For µyrgp peparim, dead bodies, µydgb begadim, garments, is the reading of eight MSS. in the collections of Kennicott and Deuteronomy Rossi, and in several ancient editions. None of the versions have dead bodies except the Chaldee. The words might be easily mistaken for each other, as the p pe, if a little faint in the under dot might easily pass for a b beth; and we know that the r resh and d daleth, are frequently interchanged and mistaken for each other, both in Hebrew and Syriac. I believe garments to be the true reading; and as to the clause which they stripped off for themselves, it should be understood thus: Which they seized for themselves, &c.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them , etc.] Which was all they had to do; they had no need to fight, as they were told, the Lord had fought for them: they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies ; rich garments on them, and gold and silver on them: and precious jewels, which they stripped of for themselves ; with which their clothes, or some part of their bodies, were ornamented: more than they could carry away ; they were so many, that they made too great a burden for them: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much ; it took up so much time to strip the bodies, to search for their money and jewels, rings, chains, and such like things of value, worn by them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-30 - Jehoshaphat exhorted his troops to firm faith in God. Faith inspires man with true courage; nor will any thing help more to the establishin of the heart in shaking times, than a firm belief of the power, an mercy, and promise of God. In all our trust in the Lord, and ou praises of him, let us especially look at his everlasting mercy to sinners through Jesus Christ. Never was an army so destroyed as that of the enemy. Thus God often makes wicked people destroy one another. An never was a victory celebrated with more solemn thanksgivings.
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 יהושׁפט 3092 ועמו 5971 לבז 962 את 853 שׁללם 7998 וימצאו 4672 בהם לרב 7230 ורכושׁ 7399 ופגרים 6297 וכלי 3627 חמדות 2530 וינצלו 5337 להם לאין 369 משׂא 4853 ויהיו 1961 ימים 3117 שׁלושׁה 7969 בזזים 962 את 853 השׁלל 7998 כי 3588 רב 7227 הוא׃ 1931
