2 Chronicles 13:14 — Meaning and Application

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“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.”

2 Chronicles 13:14

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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.

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment {was} behind them.

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.

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.

And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

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2 Chronicles 13:1

"Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah."

2 Chronicles 13:2

"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."

2 Chronicles 13:3

"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. {Abijah set: Heb. Abijah bound together}"

2 Chronicles 13:4

"And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which {is} in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;"

2 Chronicles 13:5

"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?"

2 Chronicles 13:6

"Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord."

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