In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah. 2Ch 12:161Ki 15:1-8 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 2Ch 11:201Ki 15:6-71Ki 15:21Sa 10:26Jdg 19:14Jdg 19:16Jos 18:28 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 valor. 1Ch 21:51Sa 17:1-32Ch 11:12Ch 14:8-92Ch 17:14-182Ch 26:12-13 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel: Jos 18:222Ch 15:2Jdg 9:7Gen 10:18 Ought you not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, 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, rose up, and rebelled against his lord. 1Ki 11:261Ki 12:201Ki 12:272Ch 10:19 Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them. 2Ch 12:13Jdg 9:41Co 14:201Ki 21:101Ki 21:131Sa 22:22Ch 10:162Ch 11:1-4
“Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you. 1Ki 12:282Ch 11:151Ki 14:92Ch 14:9-112Ch 20:122Ch 20:62Ch 9:8Hos 8:5-6 Haven’t you driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves according to the ways of the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of those who are no gods. 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. We have priests serving the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work. 2Ch 11:16-17Exo 19:5-6Exo 29:1-37Num 16:40Num 18:1-7Zec 13:9 They burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table, and care for the gold lamp stand with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him. 2Ch 2:4Lev 24:2-9Exo 25:30-39Exo 27:20-21Exo 29:38Exo 30:1-10Ezk 44:15Ezk 44:8 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for you will 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 ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them. Jos 8:4Jos 8:92Ch 20:22Jer 4:22Pro 21:30 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to 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. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck 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 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 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain. 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 on the LORD, the God of their fathers. 1Ch 5:202Ch 14:11Nam 1:72Ch 16:8-92Ch 20:202Ki 18:5Dan 3:28Psa 146:5 Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages. 2Ch 15:8Jos 15:91Sa 31:7Jhn 11:54Jos 10:19Jos 10:39Jos 11:12
Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. 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 grew mighty and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 2Ch 11:212Sa 5:12-13Jdg 10:4Jdg 8:30-31Jdg 9:5 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo. 2Ch 9:292Ch 12:152Ch 24:27