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World English Bible

2 Chronicles 13 (WEBP)

[1] In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
[5] Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
[6] Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.
[7] 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.
[8] “Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh 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.
[9] Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, 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.
[10] “But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work.
[11] They burn to Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.
[12] 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 Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
[13] But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
[14] When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
[15] Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
[16] The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
[17] Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
[18] Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
[19] Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
[20] Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.
[21] But Abijah grew mighty and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
[22] The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

2 Chronicles 13 (KJVS)

[1] Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
[2] He 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.
[3] And 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.
[4] And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
[5] ought 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?
[6] Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
[7] And 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.
[8] And 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.
[9] Have 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.
[10] But 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:
[11] and 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.
[12] And, 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.
[13] But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
[14] And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
[15] Then 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.
[16] And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
[17] And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
[18] Thus 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.
[19] And 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.
[20] Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
[21] But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
[22] And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 13:3 Heb. bound together
2 Chronicles 13:9 Heb. to fill his hand
2 Chronicles 13:22 Or, commentary

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

2 Chronicles 13 (BYZ)

[1] Ἐν () τῷ () ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ ἔτει () τῆς () βασιλείας () Ιεροβοαμ ἐβασίλευσεν () Αβια () ἐπὶ () Ιουδαν· ()
[2] ἔτη () τρία () ἐβασίλευσεν () ἐν () Ιερουσαλημ, () καὶ () ὄνομα () τῇ () μητρὶ () αὐτοῦ () Μααχα θυγάτηρ () Ουριηλ ἀπὸ () Γαβαων. Καὶ () πόλεμος () ἦν () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Αβια () καὶ () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Ιεροβοαμ.
[3] Καὶ () παρετάξατο Αβια () τὸν () πόλεμον () ἐν () δυνάμει () πολεμισταῖς δυνάμεως () τετρακοσίαις () χιλιάσιν () ἀνδρῶν () δυνατῶν, () καὶ () Ιεροβοαμ παρετάξατο πρὸς () αὐτὸν () πόλεμον () ἐν () ὀκτακοσίαις χιλιάσιν, () δυνατοὶ () πολεμισταὶ δυνάμεως. ()
[4] Καὶ () ἀνέστη () Αβια () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () ὄρους () Σομορων, ὅ () ἐστιν () ἐν () τῷ () ὄρει () Εφραιμ, () καὶ () εἶπεν () Ἀκούσατε, () Ιεροβοαμ καὶ () πᾶς () Ισραηλ. ()
[5] Οὐχ () ὑμῖν () γνῶναι () ὅτι () κύριος () ὁ () θεὸς () Ισραηλ () ἔδωκεν () βασιλείαν () ἐπὶ () τὸν () Ισραηλ () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα () τῷ () Δαυιδ () καὶ () τοῖς () υἱοῖς () αὐτοῦ () διαθήκην () ἁλός; ()
[6] Καὶ () ἀνέστη () Ιεροβοαμ ὁ () τοῦ () Ναβατ ὁ () παῖς () Σαλωμων τοῦ () Δαυιδ () καὶ () ἀπέστη () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () κυρίου () αὐτοῦ. ()
[7] Καὶ () συνήχθησαν () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () ἄνδρες () λοιμοὶ () υἱοὶ () παράνομοι, καὶ () ἀντέστη () πρὸς () Ροβοαμ () τὸν () τοῦ () Σαλωμων, καὶ () Ροβοαμ () ἦν () νεώτερος () καὶ () δειλὸς () τῇ () καρδίᾳ () καὶ () οὐκ () ἀντέστη () κατὰ () πρόσωπον () αὐτοῦ. ()
[8] Καὶ () νῦν () λέγετε () ὑμεῖς () ἀντιστῆναι () κατὰ () πρόσωπον () βασιλείας () κυρίου () διὰ () χειρὸς () υἱῶν () Δαυιδ· () καὶ () ὑμεῖς () πλῆθος () πολύ, () καὶ () μεθ’ () ὑμῶν () μόσχοι () χρυσοῖ, () οὓς () ἐποίησεν () ὑμῖν () Ιεροβοαμ εἰς () θεούς. ()
[9] Ἦ () οὐκ () ἐξεβάλετε () τοὺς () ἱερεῖς () κυρίου () τοὺς () υἱοὺς () Ααρων () καὶ () τοὺς () Λευίτας () καὶ () ἐποιήσατε () ἑαυτοῖς () ἱερεῖς () ἐκ () τοῦ () λαοῦ () τῆς () γῆς; () Πᾶς () ὁ () προσπορευόμενος () πληρῶσαι () τὰς () χεῖρας () ἐν () μόσχῳ () ἐκ () βοῶν () καὶ () κριοῖς ἑπτὰ () καὶ () ἐγίνετο () εἰς () ἱερέα () τῷ () μὴ () ὄντι () θεῷ. ()
[10] Καὶ () ἡμεῖς () κύριον () τὸν () θεὸν () ἡμῶν () οὐκ () ἐγκατελίπομεν, () καὶ () οἱ () ἱερεῖς () αὐτοῦ () λειτουργοῦσιν () τῷ () κυρίῳ () οἱ () υἱοὶ () Ααρων () καὶ () οἱ () Λευῖται () ἐν () ταῖς () ἐφημερίαις () αὐτῶν· ()
[11] θυμιῶσιν () τῷ () κυρίῳ () ὁλοκαυτώματα () πρωῒ () καὶ () δείλης καὶ () θυμίαμα () συνθέσεως, καὶ () προθέσεις () ἄρτων () ἐπὶ () τῆς () τραπέζης () τῆς () καθαρᾶς, () καὶ () ἡ () λυχνία () ἡ () χρυσῆ () καὶ () οἱ () λύχνοι () τῆς () καύσεως () ἀνάψαι () δείλης, ὅτι () φυλάσσομεν () ἡμεῖς () τὰς () φυλακὰς () κυρίου () τοῦ () θεοῦ () τῶν () πατέρων () ἡμῶν, () καὶ () ὑμεῖς () ἐγκατελίπετε () αὐτόν. ()
[12] Καὶ () ἰδοὺ () μεθ’ () ἡμῶν () ἐν () ἀρχῇ () κύριος () καὶ () οἱ () ἱερεῖς () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () αἱ () σάλπιγγες () τῆς () σημασίας τοῦ () σημαίνειν () ἐφ’ () ὑμᾶς. () Οἱ () υἱοὶ () τοῦ () Ισραηλ, () πολεμήσετε () πρὸς () κύριον () θεὸν () τῶν () πατέρων () ἡμῶν, () ὅτι () οὐκ () εὐοδωθήσεται () ὑμῖν. () —
[13] καὶ () Ιεροβοαμ ἀπέστρεψεν () τὸ () ἔνεδρον () ἐλθεῖν () αὐτῶν () ἐκ () τῶν () ὄπισθεν· () καὶ () ἐγένετο () ἔμπροσθεν () Ιουδα, καὶ () τὸ () ἔνεδρον () ἐκ () τῶν () ὄπισθεν. ()
[14] Καὶ () ἀπέστρεψεν () Ιουδας, () καὶ () ἰδοὺ () αὐτοῖς () ὁ () πόλεμος () ἐκ () τῶν () ἔμπροσθεν () καὶ () ἐκ () τῶν () ὄπισθεν, () καὶ () ἐβόησαν () πρὸς () κύριον, () καὶ () οἱ () ἱερεῖς () ἐσάλπισαν () ταῖς () σάλπιγξιν. ()
[15] Καὶ () ἐβόησαν () ἄνδρες () Ιουδα, καὶ () ἐγένετο () ἐν () τῷ () βοᾶν () ἄνδρας () Ιουδα καὶ () κύριος () ἐπάταξεν () τὸν () Ιεροβοαμ καὶ () τὸν () Ισραηλ () ἐναντίον () Αβια () καὶ () Ιουδα.
[16] Καὶ () ἔφυγον () οἱ () υἱοὶ () Ισραηλ () ἀπὸ () προσώπου () Ιουδα, καὶ () παρέδωκεν () αὐτοὺς () κύριος () εἰς () τὰς () χεῖρας () αὐτῶν. ()
[17] Καὶ () ἐπάταξεν () ἐν () αὐτοῖς () Αβια () καὶ () ὁ () λαὸς () αὐτοῦ () πληγὴν () μεγάλην, () καὶ () ἔπεσον () τραυματίαι ἀπὸ () Ισραηλ () πεντακόσιαι () χιλιάδες () ἄνδρες () δυνατοί. ()
[18] Καὶ () ἐταπεινώθησαν () οἱ () υἱοὶ () Ισραηλ () ἐν () τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ () ἐκείνῃ, () καὶ () κατίσχυσαν () οἱ () υἱοὶ () Ιουδα, ὅτι () ἤλπισαν () ἐπὶ () κύριον () θεὸν () τῶν () πατέρων () αὐτῶν. ()
[19] Καὶ () κατεδίωξεν () Αβια () ὀπίσω () Ιεροβοαμ καὶ () προκατελάβετο παρ’ () αὐτοῦ () πόλεις, () τὴν () Βαιθηλ καὶ () τὰς () κώμας () αὐτῆς () καὶ () τὴν () Ισανα καὶ () τὰς () κώμας () αὐτῆς () καὶ () τὴν () Εφρων καὶ () τὰς () κώμας () αὐτῆς. ()
[20] Καὶ () οὐκ () ἔσχεν () ἰσχὺν () Ιεροβοαμ ἔτι () πάσας () τὰς () ἡμέρας () Αβια, () καὶ () ἐπάταξεν () αὐτὸν () κύριος, () καὶ () ἐτελεύτησεν. ()
[21] Καὶ () κατίσχυσεν () Αβια () καὶ () ἔλαβεν () ἑαυτῷ () γυναῖκας () δέκα () τέσσαρας () καὶ () ἐγέννησεν () υἱοὺς () εἴκοσι () δύο () καὶ () θυγατέρας () δέκα () ἕξ. ()
[22] Καὶ () οἱ () λοιποὶ () λόγοι () Αβια () καὶ () αἱ () πράξεις () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () οἱ () λόγοι () αὐτοῦ () γεγραμμένοι () ἐπὶ () βιβλίῳ () τοῦ () προφήτου () Αδδω.

2 Chronicles 13:11 Corrected from λυχνοὶ, as seen in RH. The noun λύχνος is accented on its first syllable, as this edition prints it at all 46 of its other occurrences, λύχνοι among them at and .

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.