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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Chronicles 13 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Chronicles 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/12.htm" title="2 Chronicles 12">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 13 <a href="../2_chronicles/14.htm" title="2 Chronicles 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_chronicles/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Abijah King of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Most Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 11:20 and 1 Kings 15:2); Hebrew Micaiah">a</a></sup></span> a daughter <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or granddaughter">b</a></sup></span> of Uriel of Gibeah.</p><p class="reg">There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Abijah went into battle with an army of four hundred thousand able fighting men, and Jeroboam drew up a battle line against him with eight hundred thousand able troops.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Don’t you know that the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, an official of Solomon son of David, rebelled against his master. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Some worthless scoundrels gathered around him and opposed Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young and indecisive and not strong enough to resist them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“And now you plan to resist the kingdom of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But didn’t you drive out the priests of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“As for us, the <span class="name">Lord</span> is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests who serve the <span class="name">Lord</span> are sons of Aaron, and the Levites assist them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God. But you have forsaken him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. Then they cried out to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. The priests blew their trumpets <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel’s able men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Israelites were subdued on that occasion, and the people of Judah were victorious because they relied on the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took from him the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Jeroboam did not regain power during the time of Abijah. And the <span class="name">Lord</span> struck him down and he died.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Abijah grew in strength. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The other events of Abijah’s reign, what he did and what he said, are written in the annotations of the prophet Iddo.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Most Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 11:20 and 1 Kings 15:2); Hebrew <i>Micaiah</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>granddaughter</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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