DP Tool Club 17/CD_ASCQ_17_101194.iso/vrac/bimar10e.zip/2CH00.EXE/KJV/2CH/2CH13.KJV

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 13:1  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah
to reign over Judah.
 13:2  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.
 13:3  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.
 13:4  And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in
mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all
Israel;
 13:5  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?
 13:6  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon
the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his
lord.
 13:7  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.
 13:8  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.
 13:9  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.
 13:10  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:
 13:11  And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every
evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread 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.
 13:12  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.
 13:13  But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind
them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was]
behind them.
 13:14  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.
 13:15  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.
 13:16  And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God
delivered them into their hand.
 13:17  And Abijah and his people slew them with a great
slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred
thousand chosen men.
 13:18  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.
 13:19  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.
 13:20  Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days
of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
 13:21  But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives,
and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
 13:22  And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and
his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.