Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

We do not find that Jeroboam offered to make any answer at all to Abijah's speech. Though it was much to the purpose, he resolved not to heed it, and therefore he heard it as though he heard it not. He came to fight, not to dispute. The longest sword, he thought, would determine the matter, not the better cause.

Commenting on 2 Chronicles 13:13-22

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

Then the men of Judah gave a shout,.... Taking heart at the sound of the trumpets, and in order to encourage one another, and intimidate the enemy; See Gill on Sa1 17:20, and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah; possessed them with a panic, so that they fled at once, as follows.

Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

2Ch 13:13-15 The war; Judah’s victory, and the defeat of Jeroboam and the Israelites. - 2Ch 13:13. Jeroboam caused the ambush (the troops appointed to be an ambush) to go round about, so as to come upon their rear (i.e., of the men of Judah); and so they (the main division of Jeroboam’s troops) were before Judah, and the ambush in their rear (i.e., of...

Commenting on 2 Chronicles 13:13-15