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