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 valor.stylus1 Samuel 17:1, 1 Samuel 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:14, 2 Chronicles 17:18, 1 Chronicles 21:54And Abijah stood 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, hath 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 to him vain men, the children of Belial, and [they] have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, 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 [are] 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 for you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whoever 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, who minister to 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 to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt-sacrifices and sweet incense: the show-bread also [they set in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps 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 will not prosper.stylusActs 5:39, Acts 5:39, Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, Romans 8:3113But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush [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 to 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 Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns.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 became 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