The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 13:8 (ESV)

“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 that Jeroboam made you for gods.

 

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2 Chronicles 13:9 (ERV)
Have ye not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the peoples 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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:10 (ESV)

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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:11 (ESV)

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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2 Chronicles 13:12 (ERV)
And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:13 (ESV)

Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:14 (ESV)

And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets.

 

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2 Chronicles 13:15 (ERV)
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.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:16 (KJV)


And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:17 (KJV)


And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

 

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2 Chronicles 13:18 (ERV)
Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD, the God of their fathers.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:19 (ESV)


And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:20 (ESV)


Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down, and he died.

 

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2 Chronicles 13:21 (NIV)
But Abijah grew in strength. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 13:22 (ESV)


The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 14:1 (ESV)

Asa Reigns in Judah

1. Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.

 

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2 Chronicles 14:2 (NIV)
Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 14:3 (NIV)


Abijah went into battle with an army of four hundred thousand able fighting men, and Jeroboam drew up a battle line against him with eight hundred thousand able troops.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 14:4 (NIV)


Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!

 

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2 Chronicles 14:5 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.