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2 Chronicles 13 📜 📕 ↷
Abijah Reigns in Judah
1 IN the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, reigned Abias over Juda.📜💬📚
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: there was war between Abias & Jeroboam.📜💬📚
3 And when Abias had begun battle, and had most warlike men, and of chosen ones four hundreth thousand: Jeroboam put his army in array on the contrary side, eight hundreth thousand men, who themselves also were chosen men, & most valiant to battles.📜💬📚
Civil War against Jeroboam
4 Abias therefore stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and said: Hear Jeroboam, & all Israel:📜💬📚
5 Are you ignorant that our Lord the God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel for ever, to him & his children as a covenant of salt?📜💬📚
6 And there rose up Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Salomon the son of David: and rebelled against his Lord.📜💬📚
7 And there were gathered to him all the most vain men, and the children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Salomon: moreover Roboam was rude, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.📜💬📚
8 Now therefore you say that you are able to resist the Kingdom of our Lord, which he possesseth by the children of David, and you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for gods.📜💬📚
9 And you have cast out the Priests of our Lord, the children of Aaron, & the Levites: and you have made you Priests, as all the peoples of the earth: who soever shall come and consecrate his hand in a bullock of oxen, and in seven rams, is made the Priest of them that are not gods.📜💬📚
10 But our Lord is God, whom we forsake not, and the Priests do minister to our Lord of the children of Aaron, and the Levites are in their order.📜💬📚
11 Holocausts also they do offer to our Lord, every day morning and evening, and incense made according to the precepts of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, that they may be lighted always at evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.📜💬📚
12 Therefore in our host, God is the Prince, & his Priests, which sound with trumpets, and resound against you: children of Israel fight not against our Lord the God of your fathers, because it is not expedient for you.📜💬📚
13 He speaking these things, Jeroboam endeavoured to entrap him behind. And when he stood over against the enemies, he compassed Juda unwitting with his army.📜💬📚
14 And Judas looking back, saw the battle at hand before and behind, and cried to our Lord: and the Priests began to sound with trumpets.📜💬📚
15 And all the men of Juda made a shout: and behold they crying, God terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abias and Juda.📜💬📚
16 And the children of Israel fled from Juda, and our Lord delivered them into their hand.📜💬📚
17 Abias therefore and his people struck them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundreth thousand valiant men.📜💬📚
18 And the children of Israel were humbled at that time, and the children of Juda exceedingly encouraged, because they had trusted in our Lord the God of their fathers.📜💬📚
19 And Abias pursued Jeroboam flying, and he took his cities, Bethel and her daughters, & Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her daughters.📜💬📚
20 Neither was Jeroboam able to resist any more, in the days of Abias: whom our Lord struck, and he died.📜💬📚
21 Therefore Abias, his empire being strengthened, took fourteen wives: and he begat two and twenty sons, & sixteen daughters.📜💬📚
22 But the rest of the words of Abias, and of his ways and words, are written diligently in the Book of Addo the Prophet.📜💬📚
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