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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Abijah's War with Jeroboam</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1KI 15:1-8">1 Kings 15.1-8</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.1" class="v14_13_1">1</span>In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam of Israel, Abijah became king of Judah, </span><span class="v14_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.2" class="v14_13_2">2</span>and he ruled three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Micaiah daughter of Uriel, from the city of Gibeah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_2">War broke out between Abijah and Jeroboam. </span><span class="v14_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.3" class="v14_13_3">3</span>Abijah raised an army of 400,000 soldiers, and Jeroboam opposed him with an army of 800,000.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.4" class="v14_13_4">4</span>The armies met in the hill country of Ephraim. King Abijah went up Mount Zemaraim and called out to Jeroboam and the Israelites: “Listen to me!” he said. </span><span class="v14_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.5" class="v14_13_5">5</span>“Don't you know that the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel forever? </span><span class="v14_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.6" class="v14_13_6">6</span>Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against Solomon, his king. </span><span class="v14_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.7" class="v14_13_7">7</span>Later he gathered together a group of worthless scoundrels, and they forced their will on Rehoboam son of Solomon, who was too young and inexperienced to resist them. </span><span class="v14_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.8" class="v14_13_8">8</span>Now you propose to fight against the royal authority that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave to David's descendants. You have a huge army and have with you the gold bull-calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods. </span><span class="v14_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.9" class="v14_13_9">9</span>You drove out the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s priests, the descendants of Aaron, and you drove out the Levites. In their place you appointed priests in the same way that other nations do. Anybody who comes along with a bull or seven sheep can get himself consecrated as a priest of those so-called gods of yours.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.10" class="v14_13_10">10</span>“But we still serve the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God and have not abandoned him. Priests descended from Aaron perform their duties, and Levites assist them. </span><span class="v14_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.11" class="v14_13_11">11</span>Every morning and every evening they offer him incense and animal sacrifices burned whole. They present the offerings of bread on a table that is ritually clean, and every evening they light the lamps on the gold lampstand. We do what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has commanded, but you have abandoned him. </span><span class="v14_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.12" class="v14_13_12">12</span>God himself is our leader and his priests are here with trumpets, ready to blow them and call us to battle against you. People of Israel, don't fight against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of your ancestors! You can't win!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.13" class="v14_13_13">13</span>Meanwhile Jeroboam had sent some of his troops to ambush the Judean army from the rear, while the rest faced them from the front. </span><span class="v14_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.14" class="v14_13_14">14</span>The Judeans looked around and saw that they were surrounded. They cried to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for help, and the priests blew the trumpets. </span><span class="v14_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.15" class="v14_13_15">15</span>The Judeans gave a loud shout, and led by Abijah, they attacked; God defeated Jeroboam and the Israelite army. </span><span class="v14_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.16" class="v14_13_16">16</span>The Israelites fled from the Judeans, and God let the Judeans overpower them. </span><span class="v14_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.17" class="v14_13_17">17</span>Abijah and his army dealt the Israelites a crushing defeat—half a million of Israel's best soldiers were killed. </span><span class="v14_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.18" class="v14_13_18">18</span>And so the people of Judah were victorious over Israel, because they relied on the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of their ancestors.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.19" class="v14_13_19">19</span>Abijah pursued Jeroboam's army and occupied some of his cities: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, and the villages near each of these cities. </span><span class="v14_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.20" class="v14_13_20">20</span>Jeroboam never regained his power during Abijah's reign. Finally the <span class="nd">Lord</span> struck him down, and he died.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_13_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.21" class="v14_13_21">21</span>Abijah, however, grew more powerful. He had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. </span><span class="v14_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.13.22" class="v14_13_22">22</span>The rest of the history of Abijah, what he said and what he did, is written in <span class="bk">The History of Iddo the Prophet</span>.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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