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Abijah
Succeeds Rehoboam |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:1 |
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In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah
became king over Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:2 |
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his
mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between
Abijah and Jeroboam. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:3 |
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Abijah began the battle with an army of valiant
warriors, 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in battle formation against
him with 800,000 chosen men who were valiant warriors. |
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Civil
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| 2 Chronicles 13:4 |
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Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is
in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, "Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel: |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:5 |
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Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel
gave the rule over Israel forever to David and 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, rose up and rebelled against his master, |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:7 |
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and worthless men gathered about him, scoundrels,
who proved too strong for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and
timid and could not hold his own against them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:8 |
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"So now you intend to resist the kingdom of
the LORD through the sons of David, being a great multitude and having with you
the golden calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:9 |
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Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD,
the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples
of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven
rams, even he may become a priest of what 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 sons of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests,
and the Levites attend to their work. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:11 |
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Every morning and evening they burn to the LORD
burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table,
and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we
keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken Him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:12 |
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Now behold, God is with us at our head and His
priests with the signal trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O sons of Israel,
do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers, for you will not succeed." |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:13 |
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But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come from
the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:14 |
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When Judah turned around, behold, they were
attacked both front and rear; so they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew
the trumpets. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:15 |
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Then the men of Judah raised a war cry, and
when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it was that God routed Jeroboam
and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:16 |
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When the sons of Israel fled before Judah, God
gave them into their hand. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:17 |
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Abijah and his people defeated them with a great
slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:18 |
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Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that
time, and the sons of Judah conquered because they trusted in the LORD, the God
of their fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:19 |
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Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him
several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron
with its villages. |
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Death
of Jeroboam |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:20 |
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Jeroboam did not again recover strength 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 became powerful; and took fourteen
wives to himself, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. |
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| 2 Chronicles 13:22 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his
ways and his words are written in the treatise of the prophet Iddo. |
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