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13:1 In the eighteenth <06240> <08083> year <08141> of the reign of King <04428> Jeroboam <03379>, Abijah <029> became king <04427> over <05921> Judah <03063>. 13:2 He ruled <04427> for three <07969> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His mother <0517> was Michaiah <04322>, the daughter <01323> of Uriel <0222> from <04480> Gibeah <01390>. There was <01961> war <04421> between <0996> <0996> Abijah <029> and Jeroboam <03379>. 13:3 Abijah <029> launched <0631> the attack <04421> <04421> with <05973> 400,000 <0505> <03967> <0702> well-trained <0970> <0376> warriors <01368> <02428>, while Jeroboam <03379> deployed <06186> against him 800,000 <0505> <03967> <08083> well-trained <0970> <0376> warriors <02428> <01368>. 13:4 Abijah <029> ascended <06965> Mount <02022> Zemaraim <06787>, in <05921> the Ephraimite <0669> hill country <02022>, and said <0559>: “Listen <08085> to me, Jeroboam <03379> and all <03605> Israel <03478>! 13:5 Don’t <03808> you realize <03045> that <03588> the Lord <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478> has given <05414> David <01732> and his dynasty <01121> lasting <05769> dominion <04467> over <05921> Israel <03478> by a formal <04417> agreement <01285>? 13:6 Jeroboam <03379> son <01121> of Nebat <05028>, a servant <05650> of Solomon <08010> son <01121> of David <01732>, rose up <06965> and rebelled <04775> against <05921> his master <0113>. 13:7 Lawless <07386> good-for-nothing <01100> <01121> men <0582> gathered around <06908> him and conspired <0553> against <05921> Rehoboam <07346> son <01121> of Solomon <08010>, when Rehoboam <07346> was <01961> an inexperienced <03824> <07390> young man <05288> and could not <03808> resist <02388> them. 13:8 Now <06258> you <0859> are declaring <0559> that you will resist <02388> the Lord’s <03068> rule <04467> through <03027> the Davidic <01732> dynasty <01121>. You <0859> have a huge <07227> army <01995>, and bring with <05973> you the gold <02091> calves <05695> that <0834> Jeroboam <03379> made <06213> for you as gods <0430>. 13:9 But you banished <05080> the Lord’s <03068> priests <03548>, Aaron’s <0175> descendants <01121>, and the Levites <03881>, and appointed <06213> your own priests <03548> just as the surrounding <0776> nations <05971> do! Anyone <03605> who comes <0935> to consecrate <03027> <04390> himself with a young <01241> <01121> bull <06499> or seven <07651> rams <0352> becomes <01961> a priest <03548> of these fake <03808> gods <0430>! 13:10 But as for us <0587>, the Lord <03068> is our God <0430> and we have not <03808> rejected <05800> him. Aaron’s <0175> descendants <01121> serve <08334> as the Lord’s <03068> priests <03548> and the Levites <03881> assist them with the work <04399>. 13:11 They offer <06999> burnt sacrifices <05930> to the Lord <03068> every morning <01242> <01242> and every evening <06153> <06153>, along with fragrant <05561> incense <07004>. They arrange the Bread <03899> of the Presence <04635> on <05921> a ritually clean <02889> table <07979> and light <01197> the lamps <05216> on the gold <02091> lampstand <04501> every evening <06153> <06153>. Certainly <03588> we <0587> are observing <08104> the Lord <03068> our God’s <0430> regulations <04931>, but you <0859> have rejected <05800> him. 13:12 Now look <02009>, God <0430> is with <05973> us as our leader <07218>. His priests <03548> are ready to blow <08643> the trumpets <02689> to signal the attack <07321> against <05921> you. You Israelites <03478> <01121>, don’t <0408> fight <03898> against <05973> the Lord <03068> God <0430> of your ancestors <01>, for <03588> you will not <03808> win <06743>!” 13:13 Now Jeroboam <03379> had sent <0935> some men to ambush <03993> the Judahite army from behind <0310>. The main army was <01961> in front <06440> of the Judahite <03063> army; the ambushers <03993> were behind <0310> it. 13:14 The men of Judah <03063> turned <06437> around and realized <02009> they were being attacked <04421> from the front <06440> and the rear <0268>. So they cried out <06817> for help to the Lord <03068>. The priests <03548> blew <02690> their trumpets <02689>, 13:15 and the men <0376> of Judah <03063> gave the battle <07321> cry <07321>. As the men <0376> of Judah <03063> gave <07321> the battle cry <07321>, the Lord struck <05062> down Jeroboam <03379> and all <03605> Israel <03478> before <06440> Abijah <029> and Judah <03063>. 13:16 The Israelites <03478> <01121> fled <05127> from before <06440> the Judahite <03063> army, and God <0430> handed <03027> <05414> them over <03027> <05414> to the men of Judah. 13:17 Abijah <029> and his army <05971> thoroughly <04347> defeated <05221> them; 500,000 <0505> <03967> <02568> well-trained <0970> Israelite <03478> men <0376> fell <05307> dead <02491>. 13:18 That day <06256> the Israelites <03478> <01121> were defeated <03665>; the men <01121> of Judah <03063> prevailed <0553> because <03588> they relied <08172> on <05921> the Lord <03068> God <0430> of their ancestors <01>. 13:19 Abijah <029> chased <07291> Jeroboam <03379>; he seized <03920> from <04480> him these cities <05892>: Bethel <01008> and its surrounding towns <01323>, Jeshanah <03466> and its surrounding towns <01323>, and Ephron <06085> and its surrounding towns <01323>.

• 2Ch 13:1--14:1 -- Abijah's Reign

• Jeroboam

  [isbe] JEROBOAM - jer-o-bo'-am (yarobh`am; Septuagint Hieroboam, usually assumed to have been derived from riyb and `am, and signifying "the people contend," or, "he pleads the people's cause"): The name was borne by two kings of I...
  [nave] JEROBOAM: 1. First king of Israel after the revolt. Promoted by Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:28. Ahijah's prophecy concerning, 1 Kin. 11:29-39; 14:5-16. Flees to Egypt to escape from Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:26-40. Recalled from Egypt by...
  

• ABIJAH

  [ebd] father (i.e., "possessor or worshipper") of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr. 7:8. (2.) 1 Chr. 2:24. (3.) The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28). His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in Beer-sheba, to which...
  [isbe] ABIJAH - a-bi'-ja ('abhiyah or 'abhiyahu (2 Ch 13:20,21), "my father is Yahweh," or "Yahweh is father"): The name of six or more men and two women in the Old Testament. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Ch...
  

• JUDAH, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] JUDAH, KINGDOM OF - || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into Canaan 5. The Bond of Union 6. Early Rulers 7. The Judges 8. Hereditary Kings...
  [smith] Extent. --When the disruption of Solomon?s kingdom took place at Shechem, B.C. 975, only the tribe of Judah followed David, but almost immediately afterward the larger part of Benjamin joined Judah. A part, if no all, of the ...
  

• BAMAH

  [isbe] BAMAH - ba'-ma, ba'-ma (bamah, "high place"): The word appears in Ezek 20:29 where reference is made to former "high-place worship," the prophet speaking with contempt of such manner of worship. Ewald suggests a play of word...
  

• ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 3

  [isbe] ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 3 - V. Period of the Separated Kingdoms. 1. Contrasts and Vicissitudes of the Kingdoms: The two separated kingdoms differed materially. The kingdom of Ephraim was the more powerful of the two. It embraced...
  

• Abijam

  [nave] ABIJAM, called also Abijah and Abia. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 14:31; 15:1; 2 Chr. 12:16. History of, 1 Kin. 15:1-8; 2 Chr. 11:22; 13. Succeeded by Asa, 1 Kin. 15:8; 2 Chr. 14:1.
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Zelotes

  [ebd] (Luke 6:15). See SIMON; ZEALOTS.
  

• Faithfulness

  [nave] FAITHFULNESS. Psa. 12:1; Psa. 31:23; Prov. 20:6; Prov. 28:20; Matt. 10:22; Matt. 24:45-47 Luke 12:42-44. Matt. 25:14-23 Luke 19:12-27. Luke 16:10-12; 1 Cor. 4:2; Col. 3:22 Eph. 6:5-9. Rev. 2:10 See: Obedience, Exhortation t...
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• Faith

  [nave] FAITH. 2 Sam. 22:31; Psa. 5:11; Psa. 7:1; Psa. 9:9, 10; Psa. 18:30; Psa. 32:10; Psa. 33:18, 19; Psa. 34:8, 22 vs. 1-8;; Psa. 2:12. Psa. 36:7; Psa. 40:4; Psa. 64:10; Psa. 78:7 vs. 5-7.; Psa. 84:5, 12; Psa. 112:5, 7, 8; Psa. ...
  

• War

  [nave] WAR Divine approval of, 2 Sam. 22:35. Civil, Judg. 12:1-6; 20; 2 Sam. 2:12-31; 3:1; 20; 1 Kin. 14:30; 16:21; Isa. 19:2; forbidden, 2 Chr. 11:4; averted, Josh. 22:11-34. Enemy harangued by general of opposing side, 2 Kin. 1...
  

• Rebellion

  [nave] REBELLION, treasonable, Prov. 17:11. Instances of Absalom, 2 Sam. 15-18. Sheba, 2 Sam. 20. Revolt of the ten tribes, 1 Kin. 12:16-20; 2 Chr. 10; 13:5-12. See: Insurrection; Mutiny; Revolt; Sin; Usurpation.
  

• WAR; WARFARE

  [isbe] WAR; WARFARE - wor, wor'-far (milchamah, 'anshe m., "men of war," "soldiers"; polemos, polemein, strateuesthai, stratia): 1. Religious Significance 2. Preliminaries 3. Operations of War 4. Strategy 5. Important Requisites 6....
  

• Prayer

  [nave] PRAYER. Index of Sub-topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Answer to, Promised; Answered, Instances of Answered; Confession in; Importunity in, Instances of Importunity in; Intercessor...
  

• Salt

  [ebd] used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, "clean;" in marg. of R.V. "salted"). All meat-offerings were seasoned with salt (Lev. 2:13). To eat salt with one is to partake of his hospitali...
  [isbe] SALT - solt (melach; halas, hals): Common salt is considered by most authorities as an essential ingredient of our food. Most people intentionally season their cooking with more or less salt for the sake of palatability. Oth...
  [smith] Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an appetizing condiment in the food both of man, (Job 11:6) and beset, (Isaiah 30:24) see margin, and a valuable antidote to th...
  [nave] SALT Lot's wife turned into a pillar of, Gen. 19:26. The city of Salt, Josh. 15:62. The valley of salt, 2 Sam. 8:13; 2 Kin. 14:7. Salt sea, Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:12; Deut. 3:17; Josh. 3:16; 12:3; 15:2. Salt pits, Zeph. 2:9....
  

• Reproof

  [nave] REPROOF. Lev. 19:17; Psa. 141:5; Prov. 9:7, 8; Prov. 10:17; Prov. 12:1; Prov. 13:18; Prov. 15:5, 10, 12, 31, 32; Prov. 17:10; Prov. 19:25; Prov. 21:11; Prov. 25:12; Prov. 26:5; Prov. 27:5, 6; Prov. 28:23; Eccl. 7:5; Amos 5:...
  

• Jeshanah

  [ebd] a city of the kingdom of Israel (2 Chr. 13:19).
  [isbe] JESHANAH - jesh'-a-na, je-sha'-na (yeshanah): A town named with Bethel and Ephron among the places taken by Abijah from Jeroboam (2 Ch 13:19). Most scholars are agreed that the same name should be read instead of ha-shen, in...
  [smith] (old), a town which, with its dependent villages, was one of the three taken from Jeroboam by Abijah. (2 Chronicles 13:19)
  [nave] JESHANAH, a city on the N. of Benjamin, 2 Chr. 13:19.
  

• Priest

  [smith] The English word is derived from the Greek presbyter , signifying an "elder" (Heb. cohen). Origin. --The idea of a priesthood connects itself in all its forms, pure or corrupted, with the consciousness, more or less distinct ...
  [nave] PRIEST. Before Moses Melchizedek, Gen. 14:18; Heb. 5:6, 10, 11; 6:20; 7:1-21. Jethro, Ex. 2:16. Priests in Israel before the giving of the law, Ex. 19:22, 24. Called angel, Eccl. 5:6. Mosaic Ex. 28:1-4; 29:9, 44; Num....
  

• King Abijah

  

• [2Ch 13:12] The Old Ship Of Zion

  I was drifting away on life’s pitiless sea, And the angry waves threatened my ruin to be, When away at my side, there I dimly descried, A stately old vessel, and loudly I cried: “Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy!” And loudly I cried: “Ship ahoy!” ’Twas the “old ship of Zion,” thus sailing along, All aboard her seemed joyous, I heard their sweet song; And the Captain’s kind ear, ever ready to hear, Caught my wail of distress, as I cried out in fear: “Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy!” As I cried out in fear: “Ship ahoy!” The good Captain commanded a boat to be low’red, And with tender compassion He took me on board; And I’m happy today, all my sins washed away In the blood of my Savior, and now I can say: “Bless the Lord! Bless the Lord!” From my soul I can say: “Bless the Lord!” O soul, sinking down ’neath sin’s merciless wave, The strong arm of our Captain is mighty to save; Then trust Him today, no longer delay, Board the old ship of Zion, and shout on your way: “Jesus saves! Jesus saves!” Shout and sing on your way: “Jesus saves!”

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