{"id":1213,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch13\/"},"modified":"2020-03-08T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T14:00:13","slug":"2ch13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch13\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 13<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother\u2019s name also <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, <span class=\"add\">being<\/span> mighty men of valour. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye <span class=\"add\">be<\/span> a great multitude, and <span class=\"add\">there are<\/span> with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of <span class=\"add\">other<\/span> lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, <span class=\"add\">the same<\/span> may be a priest of <span class=\"add\">them that are<\/span> no gods.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But as for us, the LORD <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> the sons of Aaron, and the Levites <span class=\"add\">wait<\/span> upon <span class=\"add\">their<\/span> business:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also <span class=\"add\">set they in order<\/span> upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And, behold, God himself is with us for <span class=\"add\">our<\/span> captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> behind them.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, <span class=\"add\">are<\/span> written in the story of the prophet Iddo. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>2 Chronicles Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch30\">30<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch31\">31<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch32\">32<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch33\">33<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch34\">34<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch35\">35<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/2ch36\">36<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 1\u00a0Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. 2\u00a0He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother\u2019s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3\u00a0And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour. 4\u00a0And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; 5\u00a0Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? 6\u00a0Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. 7\u00a0And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. 8\u00a0And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. 9\u00a0Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods. 10\u00a0But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}