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    2 Chronicles 13

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    Abijah’s victory is followed by a domestic tally almost as formidable as the armies: fourteen wives, twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

    A speech on Mount Zemaraimvv. 1–12

    Abijah becomes king in Jerusalem, and war promptly arrives between him and Jeroboam. The armies are given their enormous figures—400,000 chosen men for Judah and twice that number for Israel—before Abijah climbs Mount Zemaraim and delivers a speech with several sharp corners. He invokes the covenant with David, recalls Jeroboam’s rebellion against Solomon, and accuses Israel of carrying golden calves while Judah keeps the priests, offerings, incense, bread, and lamps. The speech ends with trumpets poised for battle and the solemn warning that fighting the LORD will not succeed.

    The ambush, the rout, and the household arithmeticvv. 13–22

    Jeroboam has sensibly arranged an ambush behind Judah, producing the distinctly inconvenient discovery that the battle is in front and behind. Judah cries out, the priests blow the trumpets, and the reversal is immediate: Israel flees, 500,000 chosen men fall, and Abijah captures Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron with their villages. Jeroboam never recovers his power during Abijah’s days, and then dies. Abijah, meanwhile, grows strong and acquires a family census of startling precision: fourteen wives, twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters. The rest is referred to the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo, which is a brisk way to leave a great many words unwritten.

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    1. 2 Chr 13:1In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah,

    2. 2 Chr 13:2and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

    3. 2 Chr 13:3Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.

    4. 2 Chr 13:4Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

    5. 2 Chr 13:5Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

    6. 2 Chr 13:6Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

    7. 2 Chr 13:7Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

    8. 2 Chr 13:8And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

    9. 2 Chr 13:9But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.

    10. 2 Chr 13:10But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

    11. 2 Chr 13:11Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

    12. 2 Chr 13:12Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

    13. 2 Chr 13:13Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

    14. 2 Chr 13:14When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,

    15. 2 Chr 13:15and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

    16. 2 Chr 13:16So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.

    17. 2 Chr 13:17Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

    18. 2 Chr 13:18Thus the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

    19. 2 Chr 13:19Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.

    20. 2 Chr 13:20Jeroboam did not again recover his power during the days of Abijah, and the LORD struck him down and he died.

    21. 2 Chr 13:21But Abijah grew strong, married fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

    22. 2 Chr 13:22Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, along with his ways and his words, are written in the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo.

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    • 5Numbers 18:19All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
    • 5Leviticus 2:13And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
    • 5Mark 9:49–50For everyone will be salted with fire.
    • 52 Samuel 7:12–16And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
    • 142 Chronicles 14:11Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”
    • 51 Kings 8:20Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
    • 5Luke 1:31–33Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
    • 5Psalms 89:19–37You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
    • 18Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
    • 181 Chronicles 5:20And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.
    • 4Joshua 18:22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
    • 51 Chronicles 17:14But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.”
    • 5Ezekiel 43:24You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
    • 5Jeremiah 33:21–22then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
    • 5Daniel 4:25–32You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
    • 61 Kings 11:26Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,

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