2 Chronicles 13:9-10
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.]
