2 Chronicles 13:12

_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?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse 2 Chronicles 13:12. _GOD HIMSELF IS WITH US_] Ye have _golden calves_; we have _the living and omnipotent Jehovah_. _WITH - TRUMPETS TO CRY ALARM AGAINST YOU._] This was appalling: When the priests sound their trumpets, it will be a proof that the vengeance of the Lord shall speedily descend upon you....

EXPOSITION The career of _Abijah _begins and ends with this chapter, the twenty-one verses of which are paralleled by only eight in 1 Kings 15:1. The difference is caused by the fact that the writer of Kings only mentions that there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam, while the writer of Chronicles, besides giving particulars of the war, rehearses the splendid, dramatic, rhetorical address and appeal of Abijah on Mount Zemaraim to the people of the ten tribes. 2 CHRONICLES 13:1 IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR. Reading this literally, it will appear that Rehoboam had completed a full seventeen years. 2 Chronicles 13:2

AND, BEHOLD, GOD HIMSELF IS WITH US FOR OUR CAPTAIN,.... To go before our armies, and fight our battles for us: AND HIS PRIESTS WITH SOUNDING TRUMPETS TO CRY ALARM AGAINST YOU; which was one use of the trumpets, that the people might be remembered by the Lord, and saved from their enemies, Numbers 10:9, so that this circumstance was against Jeroboam and his army, and for Abijah and his: O CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, FIGHT YE NOT AGAINST THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS; for fighting against his people, that retained the pure worship of him, was fighting against him: FOR YOU SHALL NOT PROSPER; he seems to be assured of victory....

CHAPTER 13 THE REIGN OF ABIJAH _ 1. The beginning of his reign (2 Chronicles 13:1)_ 2. War with Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:3) 3. Death of Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:20) 4. Abijah's family (2 Chronicles 13:21) Abijah is called in Kings, Abijam, and in 2 Chronicles 13:21, Abijahu (Hebrew text). His reign was not of a long duration; he outlived his father Rehoboam only three years. His mother was Maachah ...

THE REIGN OF ABIJAH. MOST of this section has nothing corresponding to it in 1 K., though references to the history of this reign occur in 1 Kings 15:1. 2 Chronicles 13:1 f. _Cf._ 1 Kings 15:1 f., where the name of Abijah's mother is given as Maacah; so, too, 2 Chronicles 11:20. 2 Chronicles 13:4 ff. The representation of Abijah here (contrast 1 Kings 15:3) as a God-fearing champion of the Levitical worship is

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ SOUNDING TRUMPETS. Compare Numbers 10:9; Numbers 31:6....

_God_himself is _with us for_our _captain_ R.V. GOD IS WITH US AT OUR HEAD. _with sounding trumpets_ R.V. WITH THE TRUMPETS OF ALARM (Numbers 10:9). Abijah here threatens his opponents with a _jihâd_or holy war....

DISCOURSE: 403 ABIJAH’S REMONSTRANCE WITH JEROBOAM [Note: For a Fast-Day in war.] 2 Chronicles 13:12. _Behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarni against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper,_ GOOD advice should be attended to, by whomsoever it may be given. Our blessed Lord particularly inculcated this on his disciples, commanding them to do whatever those who sat in Moses’ chair required of them, without regarding the moral character of the persons themselves, or refusing compliance with what was good, because it was not exemplified in the conduct of their instructors. The words before us were not spoken by a good man; for Abijah was on the whole a wicked King [Note:...

3. THE REIGN OF ABIJAH. (Chapter 13) TEXT 2 Chronicles 13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. 2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 3. And 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. And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel: 5. Ought ye not to know that Jehovah, the 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, rose up, a