2 Chronicles 13
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Abijah, King of Judah
1Ki 15:1–8
1In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah. # 2Ch 12:16 2He reigned for three years in Judah, and his mother’s name was Micaiah, # 13:2 Maacah in 1Ki 15:2. the granddaughter of Uriel of Gibeah.
And there was a war between Abijah and Jeroboam. # 1Ki 15:6–7; 2Ch 11:20 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.
4Then Abijah went up to Mount Zemaraim # Jos 18:22 that is in the hills of Ephraim, and he said, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel! 5Do 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? # Lev 2:13; Nu 18:19 6And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, # 1Ki 11:26; 12:20 the servant of Solomon son of David, stood up and rebelled against his lord Rehoboam. 7Then vain, worthless men gathered together around him # Jdg 9:4 and defied Rehoboam son of Solomon. And Rehoboam was young and timid in heart and was not strong before them. # 2Ch 12:13
8“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. # 1Ki 12:28; 2Ch 11:15 9Have 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? # 2Ch 11:14–15 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. # Jer 2:11
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. 11They 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. # Ex 25:30–39; 2Ch 2:4 For we keep the duty of the Lord our God, but you all have abandoned Him. 12Behold, God is with us as a leader, and His priests with their battle trumpets # Nu 10:8–9 to call for battle against you all. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord the God # Ac 5:39 of your fathers, because you will not find success.”
13So Jeroboam went around them with an ambush to come from behind them. # Jos 8:4, 9 Those from Israel were in front of Judah, while the ambush was behind them. 14When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. Then they cried out to the Lord, # 2Ch 14:11 and the priests sounded their trumpets. 15Then the men from Judah shouted out; and it happened when Judah shouted out, God struck down # 2Ch 14:12 Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. # 2Ch 16:8 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. 18So the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the people of Judah prevailed, for they depended on the Lord God of their fathers. # 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 14:11
19And Abijah chased after Jeroboam and captured cities from him: # 2Ch 15:8 Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron with their surrounding villages. 20And Jeroboam did not again recover his strength in the days of Abijah, and the Lord struck down Jeroboam, and he died. # 1Sa 25:38; 1Ki 14:20
21So Abijah grew strong and took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, both his ways and words, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. # 2Ch 9:29; 12:15
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