1In the eyghteenth yeere of King Ieroboam began Abiiah to reigne ouer Iudah.

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2 Chronicles 12:16, 2 Chronicles 12:16, 1 Kings 15:1, 1 Kings 15:8, 1 Kings 15:1

2He reigned three yere in Ierusalem: (his mothers name also was Michaiah the daughter of Vriel of Gibea) and there was warre betweene Abiiah and Ieroboam.

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2 Chronicles 11:20, 2 Chronicles 11:20, 1 Kings 15:6, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:6

3And Abiiah set the battel in aray with the armie of valiant men of warre, euen foure hundreth thousand chosen men. Ieroboam also set the battell in aray against him with eight hundreth thousande chosen men which were strong and valiant.

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1 Samuel 17:1, 1 Samuel 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:14, 2 Chronicles 17:18, 1 Chronicles 21:5

4And Abiiah stood vp vpon mount Zemeraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and sayde, O Ieroboam, and all Israel, heare you me,

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Joshua 18:22, Joshua 18:22, Genesis 10:18, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Judges 9:7

5Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel hath giuen the kingdome ouer Israel to Dauid for euer, euen to him and to his sonnes by a couenant of salt?

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Numbers 18:19, Numbers 18:19, Leviticus 2:13, Leviticus 2:13, Mark 9:49

6And Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat the seruant of Salomon the sonne of Dauid is risen vp, and hath rebelled against his lord:

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1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 12:20, 1 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 10:19

7And there are gathered to him vayne men and wicked, and made themselues strong against Rehoboam the sonne of Salomon: for Rehoboam was but a childe and tender hearted, and coulde not resist them.

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2 Chronicles 12:13, Judges 9:4, 2 Chronicles 12:13, Judges 9:4, Proverbs 28:19

8Now therefore ye thinke that yee be able to resist against the kingdome of the Lord, which is in the handes of the sonnes of Dauid, and ye bee a great multitude, and the golden calues are with you which Ieroboam made you for gods.

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1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:28, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Psalms 33:16

9Haue ye not driuen away the Priestes of the Lord the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you Priests like the people of other countreis? whosoeuer commeth to consecrate with a yong bullocke and seuen rams, the same may be a Priest of them that are no gods.

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2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Jeremiah 2:11

10But wee belong vnto the Lord our God, and haue not forsaken him, and the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron minister vnto the Lord, and the Leuites in their office.

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Exodus 29:1, Exodus 29:37, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Zechariah 13:9

11And they burne vnto the Lord euery morning and euery euening burnt offerings and sweete incense, and the breade is set in order vpon the pure table, and the candlesticke of golde with the lampes thereof, to burne euery euening: for we keepe the watch of the Lord our God: but ye haue forsaken him.

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2 Chronicles 2:4, 2 Chronicles 2:4, Leviticus 24:2, Leviticus 24:9, Leviticus 24:2

12And behold, this God is with vs, as a captaine, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets, to crie an alarme against you. O yee children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

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Acts 5:39, Acts 5:39, Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, Romans 8:31

13But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to compasse, and come behind them, when they were before Iudah, and the ambushment behinde them.

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Joshua 8:9, Joshua 8:4, Joshua 8:9, Joshua 8:4, Jeremiah 4:22

14Then Iudah looked, and beholde, the battel was before and behinde them, and they cried vnto the Lord, and the Priests blewe with the trumpets,

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2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Chronicles 14:11, Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:10, Psalms 50:15

15And the men of Iudah gaue a shoute: and euen as the men of Iudah shouted, God smote Ieroboam and also Israel before Abiiah and Iudah.

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2 Chronicles 14:12, 2 Chronicles 14:12, Judges 4:15, Psalms 118:4, Psalms 118:7

16And the children of Israel fledde before Iudah, and God deliuered them into their hande.

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2 Chronicles 16:8, 2 Chronicles 16:8, Deuteronomy 3:3, Judges 1:4, Judges 11:21

17And Abiiah and his people slewe a great slaughter of them, so that there fel downe wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand chosen men.

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2 Chronicles 28:6, Nahum 1:5, 2 Chronicles 13:3, Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:19

18So the children of Israel were brought vnder at that time: and the children of Iudah preuailed, because they stayed vpon the Lord God of their fathers.

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2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 5:20, Nahum 1:7, 2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 5:20

19And Abiiah pursued after Ieroboam, and tooke cities from him, euen Beth-el, and the villages thereof, and Ieshanah with her villages, and Ephron with her villages.

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Joshua 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:8, Joshua 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:8, 1 Samuel 31:7

20And Ieroboam recouered no strength againe in the dayes of Abiiah, but the Lord plagued him, and he dyed.

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1 Kings 14:20, 1 Samuel 25:38, 1 Kings 14:20, 1 Samuel 25:38, Acts 12:23

21So Abiiah waxed mightie, and marryed foureteene wiues, and begate two and twentie sonnes, and sixteene daughters.

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Judges 8:30, Judges 8:31, 2 Samuel 5:12, 2 Samuel 5:13, Judges 9:5

22The rest of the actes of Abiiah and his maners and his sayings are written in the storie of the Prophet Iddo.

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2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 12:15, 2 Chronicles 12:15, 2 Chronicles 24:27