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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/2_chronicles/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Abijah Succeeds Rehoboam</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. <p class="paragraph"> And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam [of Israel]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Abijah began the battle with an army of brave soldiers, 400,000 chosen men. Jeroboam drew up in battle formation against him with 800,000 chosen men, valiant men. <p class="hdg">Civil War</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel, gave rule over Israel forever to David and to his sons by a covenant of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>salt [a permanent pact, extending to each generation of Israel]? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord [the king], <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and worthless (unprincipled, unethical) men gathered around him, useless <i>and</i> wicked men, who proved too strong for Rehoboam the son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and timid, and could not assert himself against them. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“And now you intend to assert yourselves against the kingdom of the LORD which is in the hands of the sons of David, since you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves (idols) which Jeroboam made for you as gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of <i>other</i> lands? So whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of non-existent gods (idols). <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not abandoned (turned away from) Him. The sons of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests, and the Levites attend to their service. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Every morning and every evening they offer the burnt offerings and the fragrant incense to the LORD; and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>showbread is set on the clean table [of pure gold], and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God [that is, the obligation we have to Him], but you have abandoned (turned away from) Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, God is with us at our head, and His priests [are here] with their signal trumpets to sound an alarm against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come from the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When [the men of] Judah turned around, they were attacked from both front and rear; so they cried out to the LORD [for help], and the priests blew the trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the men of Judah raised a war cry; and as they shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel [with defeat] before Abijah and Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel fled before Judah, and God handed over the sons of Israel to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Abijah and his people inflicted on them a great defeat, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thus the sons of Israel were subdued (humbled) at that time, and the sons of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured [several] cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephraim (Ephron), with their villages. <p class="hdg">Death of Jeroboam</p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Jeroboam did not recover strength again during the time of [the reign of] Abijah. And the LORD struck him and he died. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Abijah became powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are written in the writing of the prophet Iddo.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> The Hebrews harvested sea salt through the process of evaporation. 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