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2 Chronicles 13

Abijah becomes king of Judah and goes to war with Jeroboam. Before battle he addresses the northern army, appealing to God’s covenant with David, condemning Jeroboam’s calf worship and unauthorized priests, and contrasting that system with Judah’s temple service. Jeroboam sets an ambush, but Judah cries to the LORD, the priests sound trumpets, and God gives Judah a major victory. Jeroboam never recovers his former strength, while Abijah grows stronger.

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Abijah becomes king of Judah and goes to war with Jeroboam. Before battle he addresses the northern army, appealing to God’s covenant with David, condemning Jeroboam’s calf worship and unauthorized priests, and contrasting that system with Judah’s temple service. Jeroboam sets an ambush, but Judah cries to the LORD, the priests sound trumpets, and God gives Judah a major victory. Jeroboam never recovers his former strength, while Abijah grows stronger.

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Verses 1–3Abijah and Jeroboam prepare their armies for battleVerses 4–12Abijah warns Israel that Judah still serves the LORD under the house of DavidVerses 13–18Judah cries to the LORD and defeats Jeroboam’s greater armyVerses 19–22Abijah takes cities, grows strong, and his reign is recorded
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1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah…2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also…3And Abijah set the battle in array with an army…4And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in…5Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of…6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon…7And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children…8And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the…9Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD,…10But as for us, the LORD is our God, and…11And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every…12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain,…13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:…14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before…15Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as…16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God…17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great…18Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that…19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,…20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of…21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat…22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his…