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Chapter 14 So Abijah slept with his
fathers, and they buried him in the city

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of David.

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And Asa his son reigned in his stead.

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In his days the land was quiet ten years.

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And Asa did that which was good and right
in the eyes of the Lord his God.

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For he took away the altars of the strange
gods, and the high places, and broke down

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the images, and cut down the groves,
and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God

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of their fathers, and to do the law and
the commandment.

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Also he took away out of all the cities of
Judah the high places and the images,

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and the kingdom was quiet before him.

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And he built fenced cities in Judah,
for the land had rest.

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And he had no war in those years,
because the Lord had given him rest.

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Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build
these cities, and make about them walls

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and towers, gates and bars, while the land
is yet before us.

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Because we have sought the Lord our God,
we have sought him, and he hath given us

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rest on every side.

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So they built and prospered.

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And Asa had an army of men that bare
targets and spears, out of Judah three

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hundred thousand, and out of Benjamin,
that bare shields and drew bows,

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two hundred and fourscore thousand.

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All these were mighty men of valor.

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And there came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian, with an host of a thousand

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thousand and three hundred chariots,
and came unto Meresha.

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Then Asa went out against him,
and they set the battle in array in the

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valley of Zephathah at Meresha.

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And Asa cried unto the Lord his God,
and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to

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help, whether with many or with them that
have no power.

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Help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on
thee, and in thy name we go against this

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multitude.

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O Lord, thou art our God.

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Let not men prevail against thee.

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So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before
Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians

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fled.

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And Asa and the people that were with him
pursued them unto Gerar.

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And the Ethiopians were overthrown,
that they could not recover themselves,

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for they were destroyed before the Lord
and before his host.

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And they carried away very much spoil.

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And they smote all the cities round about
Gerar, for the fear of the Lord came upon

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them.

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And they spoiled all the cities,
for there was exceeding much spoil in

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them.

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They smote also the tents of cattle,
and carried away sheep and camels in

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abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.