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2 Chronicles 13 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Abijah Succeeds Rehoboam

(1Ki 15:1–8 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:1 - In the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am Abi'jah began to reign over Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:2 - He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micai'ah the daughter of U'riel of Gib'e-ah. Now there was war between Abi'jah and Jerobo'am.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3 - Abi'jah went out to battle having an army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand picked men; and Jerobo'am drew up his line of battle against him with eight hundred thousand picked mighty warriors.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:4 - Then Abi'jah stood up on Mount Zemara'im which is in the hill country of E'phraim, and said, "Hear me, O Jerobo'am and all Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5 - Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel for ever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:6 - Yet Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:7 - and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, when Rehobo'am was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:8 - "And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jerobo'am made you for gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:10 - But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for you cannot succeed."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - Jerobo'am had sent an ambush around to come on them from behind; thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:15 - Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jerobo'am and all Israel before Abi'jah and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:16 - The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - Abi'jah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand picked men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:18 - Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:19 - And Abi'jah pursued Jerobo'am, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jesha'nah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

Death of Jeroboam

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 - Jerobo'am did not recover his power in the days of Abi'jah; and the LORD smote him, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:21 - But Abi'jah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:22 - The rest of the acts of Abi'jah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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