1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 12:161 Kgs 15:1-8
2He 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 11:201 Kgs 15:6-71 Kgs 15:21 Sam 10:26Josh 18:28Judg 19:14Judg 19:16
3And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 21:51 Sam 17:1-32 Chr 11:12 Chr 14:8-92 Chr 17:14-182 Chr 26:12-13
4And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:222 Chr 15:2Judg 9:7Gen 10:18
5Ought 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 18:19Lev 2:132 Sam 7:12-16Mark 9:49-501 Kgs 8:20Luke 1:31-33Ps 89:19-371 Chr 17:111 Chr 17:141 Chr 28:4-5
6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 11:261 Kgs 12:201 Kgs 12:272 Chr 10:19
7And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 12:13Judg 9:41 Cor 14:201 Kgs 21:101 Kgs 21:131 Sam 22:22 Chr 10:162 Chr 11:1-4Acts 17:5Deut 13:13
8And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:282 Chr 11:151 Kgs 14:92 Chr 14:9-112 Chr 20:122 Chr 20:62 Chr 9:8Hos 8:5-6Isa 7:6-7Isa 9:6-7
9Have 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 11:14-15Jer 2:11Exod 29:351 Chr 29:51 Kgs 12:31-331 Kgs 13:332 Kgs 19:18Acts 19:26Deut 32:17Exod 29:1
10But 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 11:16-17Exod 19:5-6Exod 29:1-37Num 16:40Num 18:1-7Zech 13:9
11And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 2:4Lev 24:2-9Exod 25:30-39Exod 27:20-21Exod 29:38Exod 30:1-10Ezek 44:15Ezek 44:8Ezek 48:11Gen 26:5
12And, 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 5:39Num 10:8-9Rom 8:31Zech 10:51 Sam 4:5-72 Chr 24:20Acts 9:4-5Deut 20:4Deut 28:29Ezek 17:9
13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:4Josh 8:92 Chr 20:22Jer 4:22Prov 21:30
14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 14:11Exod 14:102 Sam 10:8-14Josh 8:20Judg 20:33-43Ps 50:15Ps 91:52 Chr 18:31
15Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 14:122 Chr 20:212 Kgs 5:1Isa 37:36Josh 11:8Josh 6:16Josh 6:20Judg 4:15Judg 7:18-22Num 32:4
16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 16:81 Sam 23:7Deut 2:36Deut 3:3Gen 14:20Josh 10:12Josh 21:44Judg 1:4Judg 11:21
17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 10:222 Chr 13:122 Chr 13:32 Chr 28:6Isa 10:16-19Isa 37:36Nah 1:5
18Thus 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 5:202 Chr 14:11Nah 1:72 Chr 16:8-92 Chr 20:202 Kgs 18:5Dan 3:28Ps 146:5Ps 22:4-5Eph 1:12
19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth–el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 15:8Josh 15:91 Sam 31:7John 11:54Josh 10:19Josh 10:39Josh 11:12
20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 14:201 Sam 25:381 Kgs 15:91 Sam 26:10Acts 12:23Ezek 24:16Ps 18:37-38
21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 11:212 Sam 5:12-13Judg 10:4Judg 8:30-31Judg 9:5
22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 9:292 Chr 12:152 Chr 24:27