2 Chronicles 13:1-10
eighteenth <08083> [A.M. 3046-3049. B.C. 958-955. in the eighteenth. See on ch.]
Michaiah <04322> [Michaiah.]
[Maachah the daughter of Absalom.]
[Abishalom. Gibeah.]
[Gibeath.]
war <04421> [A.M. 3047. B.C. 957. And there was.]
launched ... attack <0631 04421> [set. Heb. bound together.]
400,000 ......... 800,000 <03967 0702> [four hundred.]
400,000 ......... 800,000 <03967 08083> [eight hundred.]
Zemaraim <06787> [Zemaraim.]
Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, [Sh“merown <\\See definition 08111\\>,] so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; but was probably a hill on the confines of Ephraim, near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.
Listen .... Jeroboam <08085 03379> [Hear me.]
realize <03045> [Ought ye not.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
David <01732> [to David.]
formal agreement <04417 01285> [a covenant of salt.]
rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
Lawless ... men <0582 07386> [vain men.]
good-for-nothing .......... son <01121 01100> [the children of Belial.]
young man <05288> [young.]
resist <02388> [could not.]
<06440> [the kingdom.]
huge <01995 07227> [a great multitude.]
gold <02091> [with you golden.]
banished <05080> [cast out.]
priests ........... priests ....... do ................. priest <03548 06213> [made you priests.]
[consecrated himself. Heb. fill his hand.]
descendants ........................ young <01121> [young.]
But .......................................... gods <0430 03808> [no gods.]
Lord ................ Lord's <03068> [the Lord.]
We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him according to His own law. But what Abijah urged concerning the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as spoken by him, it favoured ostentation. Abijah himself was but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently connived at in his days. Yet it was true, that the men of Judah had the priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.
priests <03548> [the priests.]
