2Chronicles:13:1-22
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Now in the eighteenth sh @
moneh #
year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah .
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem .
His mothers name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel #
Uwriy #
el #
of Gibeah Gib #
ah #.
And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam Yarob #
am #.
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And Abijah setthe 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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And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim ,
which is in mount Ephraim ,
and said ,
Hear me ,
thou Jeroboam Yarob #
am #,
and all Israel Yisra #
el #;
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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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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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And there are gathered unto him vain men ,
the children of Belial b @
liya #
al #,
and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon ,
when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted rak #,
and could not withstand them .
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And now ye think to withstand the kingdom paniym #
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 .
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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 ben #
bullock and seven rams ,
the same may be a priest of them that are no gods .
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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 m @
la #
kah #:
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And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense :
the shewbread lechem #
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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And ,
behold ,
God himself is with us for our captain ro #
sh #,
and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you .
O children of Israel Yisra #
el #,
fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers ;
for ye shall not prosper .
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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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And when Judah looked back ,
behold ,
the battle was before and behind :
and they cried unto the LORD ,
and the priests sounded (
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with the trumpets .
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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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And the children of Israel fled before Judah :
and God delivered them into their hand .
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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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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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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam Yarob #
am #,
and took cities from him ,
Bethel Beyth -#
El #
with the towns thereof ,
and Jeshanah with the towns thereof ,
and Ephrain with the towns thereof .
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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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But Abijah waxed mighty ,
and married fourteen #
H6240wives ,
and begat twenty and two sons ,
and sixteen shesh #
daughters .
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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 .