New Revised Standard Version
Abijah and his army defeated them with great slaughter; five hundred thousand picked men of Israel fell slain.

Contemporary English Version
500,000 enemy troops.

New American Bible
Abijah and his people inflicted a severe defeat upon them; five hundred thousand picked men of Israel fell slain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.

And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.

five hundred

2 Chronicles 13:3,12 And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred thousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most valiant for war. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:6 For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 10:16-19 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire. . . .

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

Nahum 1:5 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.