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1 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, Bethel 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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