2 Chronicles 13
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Abijah, King of Judah
1Ki 15:1–8
1#2Ch 12:16In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah. 2#2Ch 11:20; 1Ki 15:6–7He reigned for three years in Judah, and his mother’s name was Micaiah,#2Ki 8:26 reads twenty-two years. the granddaughter of Uriel of Gibeah.
And there was a war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3Abijah set the battle in order with an army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand choice men. Jeroboam also drew up battle lines against him with an army of eight hundred thousand men, mighty men of valor.
4#Jos 18:22Then Abijah went up to Mount Zemaraim that is in the hills of Ephraim, and he said, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel! 5#Lev 2:13; Nu 18:19Do you all not know that the Lord God of Israel has perpetually given the kingdom of Israel to David, even to him and to his sons with a covenant of salt? 6#1Ki 11:26; 12:20And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon son of David, stood up and rebelled against his lord Rehoboam. 7#Jdg 9:4; 2Ch 12:13Then vain, worthless men gathered together around him and defied Rehoboam son of Solomon. And Rehoboam was young and timid in heart and was not strong before them.
8#1Ki 12:28; 2Ch 11:15“And now you think that you can withstand before the kingdom of the Lord by the hand of the sons of David. And you all are a great multitude, and with you are the golden calves that Jeroboam has made for you to be gods. 9#2Ch 11:14–15; Jer 2:11Have you all not driven out the priests of the Lord, even the Levites and sons of Aaron, and made for yourselves priests from the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be dedicated and has in his hand a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest to what is not a god.
10“But for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not abandoned Him. And our priests serve the Lord and are sons of Aaron, Levites with their service. 11#2Ch 2:4; Ex 25:30–39They sacrifice burnt offerings to the Lord every morning and evening and put out an incense of spices. They also set the showbread in place on the ritual table and set the golden lampstand with its lamps to burn every evening. For we keep the duty of the Lord our God, but you all have abandoned Him. 12#Nu 10:8–9; Ac 5:39God is with us as a leader, and His priests with their battle trumpets to call for battle against you all. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord the God of your fathers because you will not find success.”
13#Jos 8:4; 8:9So Jeroboam went around them with an ambush to come from behind them. Those from Israel were in front of Judah, while the ambush was behind them. 14#2Ch 14:11Then Judah turned and saw that the battle was both in front of and behind them. Then they cried out to the Lord, and the priests sounded their trumpets. 15#2Ch 14:12Then the men from Judah shouted out; and it happened when Judah shouted out, God struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16#2Ch 16:8The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. 17Abijah and his people struck them down with a great slaughter, and the slain from Israel who fell that day were five hundred thousand choice men. 18#1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 14:11So the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the people of Judah were strong for they depended on the Lord God of their fathers.
19#Jos 15:9; 2Ch 15:8And Abijah chased after Jeroboam and captured cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron with their surrounding villages. 20#1Sa 25:38; 1Ki 14:20And Jeroboam did not again recover his strength in the days of Abijah, and the Lord struck down Jeroboam, and he died.
21So Abijah grew strong and took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22#2Ch 9:29; 12:15And the remainder of the acts of Abijah, both his ways and words, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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