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2 Chronicles 13

2 Chron. 13:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Nowf in the eighteenth
`asar (Hebrew #6240)
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
KJV usage: (eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-)teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
Pronounce: aw-sawr'
Origin: for 6235
shmoneh (Hebrew #8083)
feminine shmonah {shem-o-naw'}; or shmownah {shem-o-naw'}; apparently from 8082 through the idea of plumpness; a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the "perfect" seven); also (as ordinal) eighth
KJV usage: eight((-een, -eenth)), eighth.
Pronounce: shem-o-neh'
Origin: or shmowneh {shem-o-neh'}
year
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
Jeroboam
Yarob`am (Hebrew #3379)
(the) people will contend; Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings
KJV usage: Jeroboam.
Pronounce: yaw-rob-awm'
Origin: from 7378 and 5971
began Abijah
'Abiyah (Hebrew #29)
from 1 and 3050; father (i.e. worshipper) of Jah; Abijah, the name of several Israelite men and two Israelitesses
KJV usage: Abiah, Abijah.
Pronounce: ab-ee-yaw'
Origin: or prolonged Abiyahuw {ab-ee-yaw'-hoo}
to reign
malak (Hebrew #4427)
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
KJV usage: consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root
over Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
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1 Kings 15:1• 1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. (1 Kings 15:1)
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Abiah, Abijah,
Abijah,
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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  Abijah succeeding makes war against Jeroboam.
4-12:  He declares the right of his cause.
13-20:  Trusting in God, he overcomes Jeroboam.
21-22:  The wives and children of Abijah.
A.M. 3046-3049.
B.C. 958-955.
in the eighteenth.
See onch.
2 Chron. 12:16• 16And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead. (2 Chron. 12:16)
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1 Kings 15:1‑8• 1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
 2Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
 4Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
 5Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
 6And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
 7Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
 8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. (1 Kings 15:1‑8)
• The events related in this chapter are passed over in silence in 1 Kings 15. The latter limits itself to mentioning that there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life and that the same thing was so between Abijah and Jeroboam. (“Abijah: 2 Chronicles 13” by H.L. Rossier)
• As always, in this part of Chronicles it is grace ruling in spite of everything. At most, Abijah's conduct is characterized in 2 Chron. 13:21 as that in which he imitated King Solomon's walk as the book of Kings reveals it to us: "But Abijah... took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters." (“Abijah: 2 Chronicles 13” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.