1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.stylus2 Chronicles 12:16, 2 Chronicles 12:16, 1 Kings 15:1, 1 Kings 15:8, 1 Kings 15:12He 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.stylus2 Chronicles 11:20, 2 Chronicles 11:20, 1 Kings 15:6, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:63And 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.stylus1 Samuel 17:1, 1 Samuel 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:14, 2 Chronicles 17:18, 1 Chronicles 21:54And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;stylusJoshua 18:22, Joshua 18:22, Genesis 10:18, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Judges 9:75Ought 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?stylusNumbers 18:19, Numbers 18:19, Leviticus 2:13, Leviticus 2:13, Mark 9:496Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.stylus1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 11:26, 1 Kings 12:20, 1 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 10:197And 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.stylus2 Chronicles 12:13, Judges 9:4, 2 Chronicles 12:13, Judges 9:4, Proverbs 28:198And 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.stylus1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:28, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Psalms 33:169Have 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.stylus2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Jeremiah 2:1110But 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:stylusExodus 29:1, Exodus 29:37, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Zechariah 13:911And 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.stylus2 Chronicles 2:4, 2 Chronicles 2:4, Leviticus 24:2, Leviticus 24:9, Leviticus 24:212And, 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.stylusActs 5:39, Acts 5:39, Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, Romans 8:3113But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.stylusJoshua 8:9, Joshua 8:4, Joshua 8:9, Joshua 8:4, Jeremiah 4:2214And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.stylus2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Chronicles 14:11, Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:10, Psalms 50:1515Then 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.stylus2 Chronicles 14:12, 2 Chronicles 14:12, Judges 4:15, Psalms 118:4, Psalms 118:716And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.stylus2 Chronicles 16:8, 2 Chronicles 16:8, Deuteronomy 3:3, Judges 1:4, Judges 11:2117And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.stylus2 Chronicles 28:6, Nahum 1:5, 2 Chronicles 13:3, Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:1918Thus 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.stylus2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 5:20, Nahum 1:7, 2 Chronicles 14:11, 1 Chronicles 5:2019And 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.stylusJoshua 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:8, Joshua 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:8, 1 Samuel 31:720Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.stylus1 Kings 14:20, 1 Samuel 25:38, 1 Kings 14:20, 1 Samuel 25:38, Acts 12:2321But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.stylusJudges 8:30, Judges 8:31, 2 Samuel 5:12, 2 Samuel 5:13, Judges 9:522And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.stylus2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 9:29, 2 Chronicles 12:15, 2 Chronicles 12:15, 2 Chronicles 24:27