2 Chronicles 13:20

And Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

In Context

19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him: Bethel with its dependent villages, and Jeshanah with its dependent villages, and Ephron with its dependent villages.

21But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:10And David said, [As] Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will surely smite him; either his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and perish.

1 Kings 15:9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah;

Ezekiel 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet thou shalt not mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 13:14-22

Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 957.) 13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. 14 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. 15 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. 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:… Read the whole commentary →

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