Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
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.
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.
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
Zemaraim Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.
Genesis 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward …
Joshua 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Hear me
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of …
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?
Ought you not
Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, It is not good that you do…
Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God …
the Lord
Judges 11:21-24 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into …
Jeremiah 27:5-7 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, …
Daniel 4:25-32 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …
Daniel 5:18 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, …
to David
1 Samuel 16:1,12 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …
2 Samuel 7:12-16 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …
1 Kings 8:20 And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, and I am risen …
1 Chronicles 17:11,14 And it shall come to pass, when your days be expired that you must …
1 Chronicles 28:4,5 However, the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of …
Psalm 89:19-37 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid …
Jeremiah 33:21,22,26 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he …
Luke 1:31-33 And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, …
a covenant of salt
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of your meat offering shall you season with salt…
Numbers 18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of …
Ezekiel 43:24 And you shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast …
Mark 9:49,50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall …
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
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.
vain men
Judges 9:4 And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the …
Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelled in the land of …
1 Samuel 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, …
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were …
Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Proverbs 12:11 He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that …
Proverbs 28:19 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows …
Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain …
Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially …
the children of Belial
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, …
1 Kings 21:10,13 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against …
young
2 Chronicles 10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the …
2 Chronicles 12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: …
Ecclesiastes 10:16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat …
Isaiah 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers…
could not
2 Chronicles 11:1-4 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house …
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 you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
the kingdom
2 Chronicles 9:8 Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you to set you on …
Psalm 2:1-6 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…
Isaiah 7:6,7 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach …
Isaiah 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …
Luke 19:14,27 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, …
a great multitude
2 Chronicles 14:9-11 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host …
2 Chronicles 20:6,12 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and …
Psalm 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
with you golden
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, …
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
1 Kings 14:9 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone …
Hosea 8:5,6 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against …
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.
cast out
2 Chronicles 11:14,15 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came …
made you priests
1 Kings 12:31-33 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest …
1 Kings 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made …
consecrated himself [heb] fill his hand
Exodus 32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even …
Leviticus 16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate …
1 Chronicles 29:5 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, …
young
Exodus 29:1,35 And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to …
Leviticus 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing …
no gods
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, …
2 Kings 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but …
Jeremiah 2:11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people …
Hosea 8:6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is …
Acts 19:26 Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost …
Galatians 4:8 However, then, when you knew not God, you did service to them which …
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:
the Lord We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him according to His own law. But what Abijah urged concerning the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as spoken by him, it favoured ostentation. Abijah himself was but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently connived at in his days. Yet it was true, that the men of Judah had priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.
2 Chronicles 11:16,17 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their …
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …
Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine …
the priests
Exodus 29:1 And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to …
Numbers 16:40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which …
Numbers 18:1-7 And the LORD said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house …
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.
they burn
2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate …
Exodus 29:38 Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar; two lambs of …
sweet incense
Exodus 30:1-10 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall …
Leviticus 2:1-3 And when any will offer a meat offering to the LORD, his offering …
Numbers 16:6,46 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company…
Luke 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn …
Revelation 8:3,4 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; …
shewbread
Exodus 25:30 And you shall set on the table show bread before me always.
Leviticus 24:5-9 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two …
the candlestick
Exodus 25:31-39 And you shall make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall …
Exodus 27:20,21 And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring you …
Leviticus 24:2-4 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive …
we keep
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, …
Numbers 9:19 And when the cloud tarried long on the tabernacle many days, then …
Ezekiel 44:8,15 And you have not kept the charge of my holy things: but you have …
Ezekiel 48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; …
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
Numbers 23:21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness …
1 Samuel 4:5-7 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, …
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, …
Zechariah 10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in …
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
for our captain
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you …
Joshua 5:13-15 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up …
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, …
his priests
Numbers 10:8,9 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets…
Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and …
Joshua 6:13-20 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the …
fight ye
Job 15:25,26 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself …
Job 40:9 Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?
Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with …
Jeremiah 50:24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and …
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Acts 9:4,5 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, …
ye shall not
2 Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …
Numbers 14:41 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the …
Deuteronomy 28:29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, …
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue …
Jeremiah 2:37 Yes, you shall go forth from him, and your hands on your head: for …
Ezekiel 17:9 Say you, Thus said the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull …
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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.
looked back
Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their …
Joshua 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, …
Judges 20:33-43 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves …
2 Samuel 10:8-14 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at …
cried
2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …
2 Chronicles 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, …
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Psalm 91:5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow …
the priests
2 Chronicles 13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests …
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.
as the men
2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to …
Joshua 6:16,20 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with …
Judges 7:18-22 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow …
Psalm 47:1,5 O clap your hands, all you people; shout to God with the voice of triumph…
God smote
2 Chronicles 14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and …
Numbers 32:4 Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of …
Joshua 11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, …
Judges 4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his …
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great …
Psalm 118:4-7 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures for ever…
Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the …
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
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.
relied
2 Chronicles 16:8,9 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many …
2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness …
2 Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none …
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered …
Psalm 22:4,5 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them…
Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is …
Daniel 3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, …
Nahum 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows …
Ephesians 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
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.
took cities
Joshua 10:19,39 And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost …
Joshua 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did …
1 Samuel 31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, …
Jeshanah Jeshanah, according to the Talmud, was not far from Sephoris. Perhaps it is the Migdal-Senna of Eusebius, eight miles north of Jericho.
Ephrain Ephrain, or Ephron, a city of Benjamin, is placed by Eusebius, eight mills south of Jerusalem, near Bethel. Josephus calls Ephrain and Bethel two little cities; and places the former in the tribe of Benjamin, near the wilderness of Judea, in the way to Jericho.
2 Chronicles 15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, …
Joshua 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain …
Ephron
John 11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went there …
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
