2 Chronicles, Chapter 13:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 13 of the Bible book.
Abiam is king of Judah
- 1. In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign, Abijah became king of Judah.
- 2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
- 3. Abijah led an army of four hundred thousand mighty warriors, and Jeroboam faced him with eight hundred thousand mighty warriors.
- 4. Abijah went up to Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and shouted, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
- 5. Do you not know that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom of Israel to David and his descendants forever by an unbreakable covenant?
- 6. But Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rebelled against his master.
- 7. Wicked and worthless men joined him and opposed Rehoboam son of Solomon, when he was still young and inexperienced, and he could not resist them.
- 8. “Now you intend to resist the kingdom of the Lord, which is in the hands of the descendants of David! You are indeed a great multitude, and you have the golden calves that Jeroboam made as your gods.
- 9. But did you not drive out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests, as the other nations do? Whoever consecrates himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of the gods who have no authority.
- 10. “But we worship the Lord our God and have not forsaken him. Our priests, the descendants of Aaron, serve the Lord, and the Levites assist them.
- 11. Every morning and evening they offer burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the Lord, they arrange the bread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps on the golden lampstand. We have followed the Lord our God, while you have forsaken him.
- 12. And now God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound the war cry against you with their trumpets. “Men of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed!”
- 13. Meanwhile, Jeroboam had positioned troops to ambush the army of Judah, so that he was in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind.
- 14. When the men of Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked from the front and from the rear, they cried out to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,
- 15. And the men of Judah shouted, and at the sound of the shout, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and the men of Judah.
- 16. The Israelites fled before the soldiers of Judah, for God had delivered them into their hands.
- 17. Abijah and his army defeated them greatly, and five hundred thousand of Israel's warriors were killed.
- 18. That day the Israelites were humbled, but the men of Judah were strengthened, because they trusted in the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
- 19. Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron with their villages.
- 20. During the reign of Abijah, Jeroboam was unable to regain his power until the Lord struck him down and he died.
- 21. Abijah, on the other hand, became strong and became a ruler. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
- 22. The rest of the events of Abijah's reign, what he did and what he said, are recorded in the writings of the prophet Iddo.
