Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. 2Ch 12:161Ki 15:1-8 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. 2Ch 11:201Ki 15:6-71Ki 15:21Sa 10:26Jdg 19:14Jdg 19:16Jos 18:28 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. 1 1Ch 21:51Sa 17:1-32Ch 11:12Ch 14:8-92Ch 17:14-182Ch 26:12-13
¶ And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; Jos 18:222Ch 15:2Jdg 9:7Gen 10:18 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? Num 18:19Lev 2:132Sa 7:12-16Mrk 9:49-501Ki 8:20Luk 1:31-33Psa 89:19-371Ch 17:11 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. 1Ki 11:261Ki 12:201Ki 12:272Ch 10:19 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. 2Ch 12:13Jdg 9:41Co 14:201Ki 21:101Ki 21:131Sa 22:22Ch 10:162Ch 11:1-4 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. 1Ki 12:282Ch 11:151Ki 14:92Ch 14:9-112Ch 20:122Ch 20:62Ch 9:8Hos 8:5-6 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. 2 2Ch 11:14-15Jer 2:11Exo 29:351Ch 29:51Ki 12:31-331Ki 13:332Ki 19:18Act 19:26 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: 2Ch 11:16-17Exo 19:5-6Exo 29:1-37Num 16:40Num 18:1-7Zec 13:9 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. 2Ch 2:4Lev 24:2-9Exo 25:30-39Exo 27:20-21Exo 29:38Exo 30:1-10Ezk 44:15Ezk 44:8 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. Act 5:39Num 10:8-9Rom 8:31Zec 10:51Sa 4:5-72Ch 24:20Act 9:4-5Deu 20:4
¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. Jos 8:4Jos 8:92Ch 20:22Jer 4:22Pro 21:30 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. 2Ch 14:11Exo 14:102Sa 10:8-14Jdg 20:33-43Jos 8:20Psa 50:15Psa 91:52Ch 18:31 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. 2Ch 14:122Ch 20:212Ki 5:1Isa 37:36Jdg 4:15Jdg 7:18-22Jos 11:8Jos 6:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. 2Ch 16:81Sa 23:7Deu 2:36Deu 3:3Gen 14:20Jdg 1:4Jdg 11:21Jos 10:12 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 1Co 10:222Ch 13:122Ch 13:32Ch 28:6Isa 10:16-19Isa 37:36Nam 1:5 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. 1Ch 5:202Ch 14:11Nam 1:72Ch 16:8-92Ch 20:202Ki 18:5Dan 3:28Psa 146:5 And 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. 2Ch 15:8Jos 15:91Sa 31:7Jhn 11:54Jos 10:19Jos 10:39Jos 11:12 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. 1Ki 14:201Sa 25:381Ki 15:91Sa 26:10Act 12:23Ezk 24:16Psa 18:37-38
¶ But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 2Ch 11:212Sa 5:12-13Jdg 10:4Jdg 8:30-31Jdg 9:5 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 2Ch 9:292Ch 12:152Ch 24:27