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| 2 Chronicles 13:1 |
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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam
began Abijah to reign over Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:2 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:3 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:4 |
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And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which
is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:5 |
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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? |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:6 |
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Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of
Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:7 |
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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
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| 2 Chronicles 13:8 |
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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 your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:9 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:10 |
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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: |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:11 |
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And they burn unto the LORD every morning and
every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:12 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:13 |
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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about
behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:14 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:15 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:16 |
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And the children of Israel fled before Judah:
and God delivered them into their hand. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:17 |
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And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:18 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:19 |
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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took
cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof,
and Ephraim with the towns thereof. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:20 |
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Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again
in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:21 |
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But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen
wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:22 |
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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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