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His mother was named Micaiah, daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Abijah prepared for battle with an army of 400,000 of the best soldiers, while Jeroboam arranged to oppose him with 800,000 of the best professional soldiers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the mountains of Ephraim. He called out, "Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Don't you know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom of Israel to David and his descendants forever in a permanent promise? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But Jeroboam (Nebat's son) rebelled against his master. He had been the servant of David's son Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Worthless, good-for-nothing men gathered around him. They opposed Rehoboam, son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was too young and inexperienced to challenge them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Do you now intend to challenge the LORD's kingdom, which has been placed in the hands of David's descendants? You are a large crowd, and you have the gold calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You forced out the LORD's priests who were Aaron's descendants, and you forced out the Levites so that you could appoint your own priests, as the people in foreign countries do. Anyone who has a young bull and seven rams can be ordained as a priest of nonexistent gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"However, the LORD is our God. We haven't abandoned him. The priests who serve the LORD are Aaron's descendants, and the Levites assist them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They sacrifice burnt offerings to the LORD every morning and every evening. They offer sweet-smelling incense and rows of bread on the clean table. The lamps on the gold lamp stand burn every evening. We're following the instructions the LORD our God gave us, but you have abandoned him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound their trumpets to call [the army] to fight you. Men of Israel, don't wage war against the LORD God of your ancestors. You won't succeed."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But Jeroboam had set an ambush to attack them from behind. So Jeroboam's army 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 Judah's soldiers looked around, the battle was in front of them and behind them. They cried out to the LORD, the priests blew the trumpets, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and the men of Judah shouted. When they shouted, God attacked Jeroboam and all Israel in front of Abijah and Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The Israelites fled from Judah's [army], and God handed them over to Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Abijah and his men defeated them decisively, and 500,000 of the best men of Israel were killed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the Israelites were humbled at that time, and the men of Judah won because they trusted the LORD God of their ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some of his cities: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Jeroboam never regained power during Abijah's time. The LORD caused Jeroboam to become sick, and Jeroboam died.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But Abijah became strong. He married 14 wives and fathered 22 sons and 16 daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Everything else about Abijah-how he lived and what he said-is written in the history by the prophet Iddo.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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