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2 Chronicles 13:13–22, “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. And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 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. And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.”
Jeroboam decided that he would attack Judah because he didn’t want to submit to the Rehoboam’s son. While Abijah was speaking, Jeroboam set his armies in an ambush behind the enemy troops. The people from Judah looked up and saw that they were surrounded by their enemy and called out the Lord. The Lord intervened and Abijah’s smaller army was able to defeat Jeroboam’s larger army. As was customary in those day, the Judean armies didn’t take any prisoners but killed their enemies and took possession of some enemy towns and cities as well. Jeroboam was finally punished for his rebellion against the Lord and his refusal to accept the Lord’s Law. Abijah was a successful and died after Jeroboam. A record of his life was kept in the archives, this recored was written by a man called Iddo at the time.
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