2CH-13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began

Abijah to reign over Judah.

2CH-13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name

also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there

was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2CH-13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of

valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men:

Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight

hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.

2CH-13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in

mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2CH-13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave

the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to

his sons by a covenant of salt?

2CH-13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon

the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his

lord.

2CH-13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children

of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the

son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and

could not withstand them.

2CH-13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD

in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude,

and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you

for gods.

2CH-13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons

of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the

manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh

to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the

same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

2CH-13:10 But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not

forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD,

[are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their]

business:

2CH-13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every

evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also

[set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of

gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep

the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

2CH-13:12 And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our]

captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm

against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD

God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2CH-13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind

them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind

them.

2CH-13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was]

before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests

sounded with the trumpets.

2CH-13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of

Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all

Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2CH-13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God

delivered them into their hand.

2CH-13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great

slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred

thousand chosen men.

2CH-13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that

time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied

upon the LORD God of their fathers.

2CH-13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities

from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the

towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.

2CH-13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the

days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

2CH-13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives,

and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2CH-13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and

his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

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