14:013:004 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim,
which is in mount
Ephraim,
and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
14:013:005 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?
14:013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant
of Solomon the son
of
David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
14:013:007 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.
14:013:008 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 your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you
for
gods.
14:013:009 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.
14:013:010 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:
14:013:011 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.
14:013:012 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.
14:013:013 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them:
so
they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind
them.
14:013:014 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.
14:013:015 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.
14:013:016 And the children of Israel fled before
Judah: and God
delivered
them into their hand.


