0 SAB 2 Chronicles 13

For Pekah ... slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day ... because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. 28:6

Trivia: How did God punish Jehoram for making everyone in Judah commit fornication?

2 Chronicles

CHAPTER 13

God helps Abijah kill a half-million Israelites
13:1-19, Cf. 1 Kg 15:1-8

1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Abijah was king of Judah for three years.

His mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. [1]

There was a war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

3 And 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.

Abijah had 400,000 chosen men.

Jeroboam had 800,000 mighty men of valor.

4And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

5 Ought 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?

Abijah stood up on mount Zemaraim, and said to Jeroboam and all of Israel's soldiers,
Don't you know that God gave Israel to David and his sons forever by a covenant of salt?

6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

But Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon.

7 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.

And then some vain sons of Belial joined Jeroboam in his rebellion against Solomon's son, Rehoboam, while he was still young and tenderhearted.

8 And 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 your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

9 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 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 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order 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.

And now you think you and your golden calves are going to defeat the sons of David.

12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our 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.

God himself is our captain, and his priests blow their trumpets against you.

13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

While Abijah was still talking, Jeroboam's army attacked.

14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

The men of Judah cried out to God, while the priests blew their trumpets.

15 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.

And God smote Jeroboam and the men of Israel,

16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

and God delivered them into their hand,

17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

killing 500,000 chosen men. [2]

18 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.

Judah won the war because they relied on their fathers' God.

19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.

Abijah took cities from Jeroboam, who never recovered his power.
God kills Jeroboam
Contradictions 13:20

20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

And then God killed him. [3]

Abijah waxes mighty and marries 14 wives
13:21-22

21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married 14 wives [4], and fathered 22 sons and 16 daughters.

22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

The rest of Abijah's acts and sayings are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
«
»

Copyright © 1999-2024
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible

Send comments to Steve Wells
at swwells(at)gmail.com