Victory Through Reliance on God. Instead of listening to Abijah, Jeroboam set an ambush. Showing their SHAMEFUL HISTORY. Then an EARNEST WARNING was GIVEN the trap closed on Judah, the men cried out to the LORD and the priests blew the trumpets. The Lord answered by giving Judah a great victory causing their TREACHEROUS AMBUSH to be THWARTED. Five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell—a staggering price to pay for turning away from God!
Abijah Challenges King Jeroboam
Victory Through Reliance on God
2 Chronicles 13: 3-18
A SHAMEFUL HISTORY – 2 Chronicles 13: 3-9
AN EARNEST WARNING GIVEN – 2 Chr. 13: 10-12
A TREACHEROUS AMBUSH THWARTED – 2 Chr. 13: 13-18
2Ch 13:3  Abijah set the battle in order with an army of valiant warriors, four hundred thousand choice men. Jeroboam also drew up in battle formation against him with eight hundred thousand choice men, mighty men of valor. 
2Ch 13:4  Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, and said, "Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel: 
2Ch 13:5  Should you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the dominion over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt? 
2Ch 13:6  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord. 
2Ch 13:7  Then worthless rogues gathered to him, and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and inexperienced and could not withstand them. 
2Ch 13:8  And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and with you are the gold calves which Jeroboam made for you as gods. 
2Ch 13:9  Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of other lands, so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of things that are not gods? 
2Ch 13:10  But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the priests who minister to the LORD are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties. 
2Ch 13:11  And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense; they also set the showbread in order on the pure gold table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening; for we keep the command of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken Him. 
2Ch 13:12  Now look, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper!" 
2Ch 13:13  But Jeroboam caused an ambush to go around behind them; so they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them. 
2Ch 13:14  And when Judah looked around, to their surprise the battle line was at both front and rear; and they cried out to the LORD, and the priests sounded the trumpets. 
2Ch 13:15  Then the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 
2Ch 13:16  And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. 
2Ch 13:17  Then Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaughter; so five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain. 
2Ch 13:18  Thus the children of Israel were subdued at that time; and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD God of their fathers. 

1. How did the size of Abijah’s army compare with the armies of his opponents?
2. What did he say about Jeroboam’s rebellion?
3. What did Abijah remind his adversaries of with regard to David’s kingdom?
4. What did Israel worship in place of God?
5. What was Abijah’s main plea to the soldiers of Israel?
6. What was his blunt warning?
7. Why did God give victory to Judah and over whelm Israel?


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