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Chapter 13 Now in the eighteenth year of
King Jeroboam, began Abijah to reign over

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Judah.

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He reigned three years in Jerusalem.

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His mother's name also was Micaiah,
the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.

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And there was war between Abijah and
Jeroboam.

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And Abijah set the battle in array with an
army of valiant men of war, even 400,000

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chosen men.

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Jeroboam also set the battle in array
against him, with 800,000 chosen men,

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being mighty men of valor.

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And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zimmerayim,
which is in Mount Ephraim, and said,

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Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel.

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Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of
Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to

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David forever, even to him and to his sons
by a covenant of salt?

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Yet Jeroboam, the son of Nebat,
the servant of Solomon, the son of David,

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is risen up and hath rebelled against his
Lord.

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And there are gathered unto him vain men,
the children of Belial, and have

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strengthened themselves against Rehoboam,
the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was

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young and tenderhearted and could not
withstand them.

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And now ye think to withstand the kingdom
of the Lord in the hand of the sons of

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David.

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And ye be a great multitude, and there are
with you golden calves, which Jeroboam

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made you for gods.

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Have ye not cast out the priests of the
Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites,

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and have made you priests after the manner
of the nations of other lands?

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So that whosoever cometh to consecrate
himself with a young bullock and seven

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rams, the same may be a priest of them
that are no gods.

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But as for us, the Lord is our God,
and we have not forsaken him.

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And the priests which minister unto the
Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the

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Levites wait upon their business.

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And they burn unto the Lord every morning
and every evening burnt sacrifices and

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sweet incense.

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The showbread also set they in order upon
the pure table, and the candlestick of

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gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every
evening.

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For we keep the charge of the Lord our
God, but ye have forsaken him.

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And behold, God himself is with us for our
captain, and his priests with sounding

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trumpets to cry alarm against you.

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O children of Israel, fight ye not against
the Lord God of your fathers, for ye shall

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not prosper.

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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them.

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So they were before Judah, and the
ambushment was behind them.

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And when Judah looked back, behold,
the battle was before and behind.

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And they cried unto the Lord, and the
priests sounded with the trumpets.

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Then the men of Judah gave a shout,
and as the men of Judah shouted,

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it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam
and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

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And the children of Israel fled before
Judah, and God delivered them into their

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hand.

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And Abijah and his people slew them with a
great slaughter.

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So there fell down slain of Israel five
hundred thousand chosen men.

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Thus the children of Israel were brought
under at that time.

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And the children of Judah prevailed,
because they relied upon the Lord God of

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their fathers.

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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam,
and took cities from him, Bethel with the

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towns thereof, and Jeshunah with the towns
thereof, and Ephraim with the towns

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thereof.

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Neither did Jeroboam recover strength
again in the days of Abijah, and the Lord

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struck him, and he died.

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But Abijah waxed mighty, and married
fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two

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sons, and sixteen daughters.

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And the rest of the acts of Abijah,
and his ways, and his sayings,

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are written in the story of the prophet
Iddo.