1Yn the eiytenthe yeer of kyng Jeroboam Abia regnede on Juda;

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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 regnede thre yeer in Jerusalem; and the name of hise modir was Mychaie, the douyter of Vriel of Gabaa. And batel was bitwixe Abia and Jeroboam.

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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 whanne Abia hadde bigunne batel, and hadde most chyualrouse men, and four hundrid thousynde of chosun men, Jeroboam arayede ayenward the scheltroun with eiyte hundrid thousynde of men, and thei weren chosun men and most stronge to batels.

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

4Therfor Abia stood on the hil Semeron, that was in Effraym, and seide, Here thou, Jeroboam and al Israel;

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

5whether ye knowen not, that the Lord God of Israel yaf to Dauid the rewme on Israel with outen ende, to hym and to hise sones in to the couenaunt of salt, `that is, stidefast and stable?

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

6And Jeroboam, the sone of Nabath, the seruaunt of Salomon, sone of Dauid, roos, and rebellide ayens 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 most veyn men and the sones of Belial weren gaderid to hym, and thei hadden myyt ayens Roboam, the sone of Salomon. Certis Roboam was buystuouse, `ether fonne, and of feerdful herte, and myyte not ayenstonde hem.

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

8Now therfor ye seien, that ye moun ayenstonde the rewme of the Lord, which he holdith in possessioun bi the sones of Dauid; and ye han a greet multitude of puple, and goldun caluys, whiche Jeroboam made in to goddis to you.

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

9And ye han caste a wei the preestis of the Lord, the sones of Aaron, and dekenes, and ye han maad preestis to you, as alle the puplis of londis han preestis; who euer cometh and halewith his hond in a bole, in oxis, and in seuene wetheris, anoon he is maad preest of hem that ben not goddis.

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

10But oure Lord is God, whom we forsaken not; and preestis of the sones of Aaron mynystren to the Lord, and dekenes ben in her ordre;

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

11and thei offren brent sacrifices to the Lord bi ech dai in the morewtid and euentid, and encense maad bi comaundementis of the lawe; and loues ben set forth in a moost clene boord; and at vs is the goldun candilstik and his lanterne, that it be teendid euere at euentid; forsothe we kepen the comaundementis of our God, whom ye han forsake.

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

12Therfor God is duyk in oure oost, and hise preestis, that trumpen and sownen ayens you; nyle ye, sones of Israel, fiyte ayens the Lord God of youre fadris, for it spedith not to you.

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

13While he spak these thingis, Jeroboam made redi tresouns bihynde; and whanne he stood euene ayens the enemyes, he cumpasside with his oost Juda vnwitynge.

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

14And Juda bihelde, and siy batel neiy euene ayens, and bihynde the bak; and he criede to the Lord, and preestis bigunnen for to trumpe.

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

15And alle the men of Juda crieden, and, lo! while thei crieden, God made aferd Jeroboam and al Israel, that stood euen ayens Juda and Abia.

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

16And the men of Israel fledden fro Juda, and God bitook hem in to the hondis of men of Juda.

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

17Therfor Abia and his puple smoot hem with a greet wounde, and there felden doun of hem fyue hundrid thousynde of stronge men woundid.

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

18And the sones of Israel weren maad lowe in that tyme, and the sones of Juda weren coumfortid ful greetli, for thei hadden hopid in the Lord God of her fadris.

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

19Forsothe Abia pursuede Jeroboam fleynge, and took hise cytees, Bethel and hise vilagis, and Jesana with hise vilagis, and Ephron and hise vilagis;

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

20and Jeroboam miyte no more ayenstonde in the daies of Abia, whom the Lord smoot, and he was deed.

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

21Therfor Abia, whanne his empire was coumforted, took fourtene wyues, and he gendride two and twenti sones, and sixtene douytris.

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

22The residue of wordis of Abia and of his weyes and werkis, ben writun ful diligentli in the book of Abdo, the profete.

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