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Verse 2 Chronicles 13:19. _BETH-EL_] "Beth-lehem." - _Targum_.
_JESHANAH_] We know not where these towns lay....
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Jeshanah is probably identical with the “Isanas” of Josephus,
where a battle took place in the war between Antigonus and Herod; but
its situation cannot be fixed. For Ephrain, see Joshua 18:23 note....
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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)...
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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., whe...
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_Beth-el_ Beth-el was apparently subsequently recovered by the
Northern Kingdom; cp. 2 Kings 10:29. Nothing is said, be it noted, of
the capture of the golden calf. It may have been removed for safety...
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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 wa...
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_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._ ABIJAH PURSUED AFTER JEROBOAM. Th...
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REIGN OF ABIJAH
This chapter expands the account given of Abijah (Abijam) in 1 Kings
15:1 by giving details of his war with Jeroboam, which is there only
briefly mentioned....
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JESHANAH.. EPHRAIN] The first is not known, the second is identified
by some with the 'Ephraim' mentioned in John 11:54....
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2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE
The *Kingdom called Judah
2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 13
JUDAH AND *ISRAEL FIGHT A WAR – 2 CHRONICLES 13:1-19
v1
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TOOK CITIES FROM HIM. — The three cities and their districts were
only temporarily annexed to Judah. According to 1 Kings 15:17, Baasha,
King of Israel, attempted in the next reign to fortify Ramah, w...
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וַ יִּרְדֹּ֣ף אֲבִיָּה֮ אַחֲרֵ֣י
יָרָבְעָם֒ וַ...
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REHOBOAM AND ABIJAH: THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL
2 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Chronicles 12:1;...
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In the reign of Abijah there was terrible war between Judah and
Israel. The king himself was evil, as the Book of the Kings declares.
Here, however, he was speaking and acting for his people. His addr...
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Bethel, the head of the calf worship; though Abulensis thinks it was
another city, otherwise it would not have been spared. The calf
continued there till the reign of Jehu, 4 Kings x. 29. (Menochius)...
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The event was truly awful. This slaughter is the greatest that we ever
read of in sacred history....
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 16.
In his wars with Jeroboam, Abijah stands entirely upon this ground,
and he is blessed.
Asa follows his steps; and, whether at peace, or while...
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AND ABIJAH PURSUED AFTER JEROBOAM,.... As he and his army fled:
AND TOOK CITIES FROM HIM; the following ones:
BETHEL WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF; the villages adjoining to it; here one
of the calves was...
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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.
Ver. 19. _And took cities from him...
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_Abijah took cities from him, Beth-el_, &c. Which, however, Jeroboam
recovered afterward, as appears by the course of the history. What
became of the golden calf at Beth-el, when that place came thus...
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1 Abiiah succeeding, maketh warre against Ieroboam.
4 Hee declareth the right of his cause.
13 Trusting in God, hee ouercommeth Ieroboam.
21 The wiues and children of Abiiah.
1 NOWE [NOTE: 1 Kings...
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THE DEFEAT OF JEROBOAM...
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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel
with the towns thereof, the hamlets surrounding it, AND JESHANAH WITH
THE TOWNS THEREOF, AND EPHRAIN WITH THE TOWNS THEREOF, all bor...
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THE REIGN OF ABIJAH
(vv.1-22)
Jereboam outlived Rehoboam, though not for long (v.20). He died after
reigning 22 years (1 Kings 14:20), five years longer than Rehoboam.
But Abijah, son of Rehoboam, r...
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BETH-EL; which Jeroboam recovered afterwards, as appears by the course
of the history, though it be not particularly mentioned, which is the
case of many other considerable things. And in the mean tim...
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CONTENTS: War between Abijah and Jeroboam. Death of Jeroboam.
CHARACTERS: God, Abijah, Jeroboam.
CONCLUSION: Right may indeed go by the worst for a time, but it will
prevail at last. The battle is o...
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2 Chronicles 13:3. _Four hundred thousand eight hundred thousand
chosen men._ This would seem incredible, did we not know that the
manner of the Hebrews at that time was to bring all their people from...
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2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 13:13 Judah’s reliance on God
(vv. 2 Chronicles 13:14,...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter parallel to 1 Kings 15:1. Abijah
succeeds and wars against Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:1); declares the
right of his cause (2 Chronicles 13:4); his victory and end ...
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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 o...
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And he reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was
Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between
Abijah and Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:2).
Now Jeroboam, you remem...
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1 Samuel 31:7; 2 Chronicles 15:8; John 11:54; Joshua 10:19; Joshua 1
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Was Abijah a wicked or a righteous king?
PROBLEM: According to 1 Kings 15:3, Abijah was a wicked king who
“walked in all the sins of his father.” However, here in 2
Chronicles he is represented as gi...