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== Divrei Hayamim II (Book of 2 Chronicles), Chapter 13 ==

<named id="1"/>1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

<named id="2"/>2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

<named id="3"/>3 And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men; and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valour.

<named id="4"/>4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said: 'Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel;

<named id="5"/>5 ought ye not to know that HaShem, the G-d of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

<named id="6"/>6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

<named id="7"/>7 And there were gathered unto him vain men, base fellows that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and could not withstand them.

<named id="8"/>8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of HaShem in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.

<named id="9"/>9 Have ye not driven out the priests of HaShem, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the peoples of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same becometh a priest of them that are no gods.

<named id="10"/>10 But as for us, HaShem is our G-d, and we have not forsaken Him; and we have priests ministering unto HaShem, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work;

<named id="11"/>11 and they burn unto HaShem every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense; the showbread 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 HaShem our G-d; but ye have forsaken Him.

<named id="12"/>12 And, behold, G-d is with us at our head, and His priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against HaShem, the G-d of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.'

<named id="13"/>13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

<named id="14"/>14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried unto HaShem, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

<named id="15"/>15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that G-d smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

<named id="16"/>16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and G-d delivered them into their hand.

<named id="17"/>17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

<named id="18"/>18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon HaShem, the G-d of their fathers.

<named id="19"/>19 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.

<named id="20"/>20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and HaShem smote him, and he died.

<named id="21"/>21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

<named id="22"/>22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

== See also ==
* [[Divrei Hayamim II 12|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Divrei Hayamim II 13 Commentaries]]
* [[Divrei Hayamim II 14|Next Chapter]]

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