II. CHRONICLES XIV. 7.

priests with xsounding xtrumpets to ery-alarm against you. O_schildren_ of Israél, fight ye not against ! the Lorp =God_of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.”
38 But Jeroboam caused an *ambush- ment to come_about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the am- bushment was behind them. ;
14 And when Judah looked _ back, behold, the battle was before and be- hind : and they cried unto ‘the Lorp, and the priests +sounded with the trumpets.
15 Then the_'men_of Judah gave_a_ shout: and as the_imen_of Judah shouted, it came_to_pass, that x=God smote -Jeroboam and all Israél before Abijah and Judah.
16 And the_schildren_of Israél fled before Judah: and =God delivered them into their hand.
7 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell_down slain of Israél five hundred thousand chosen * men.
18 Thus the_s children_of Israél were_ brought_under at xthat xtime, and the_ schildren_of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon /the Lorp =God_of their fathers.
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, -Beth-él with -the_towns thereof, and -Jeshanah with -the_towns thereof, and -Ephrain with the_towns thereof.
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the_days_of Abijah : and ‘the Lorp struck him, and he died.
21 But Abijah waxed_mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
22 And the_rest_of the_acts_of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the_cstory_of the prophet
Iddo.
1 4 SO Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried hit in the_city_
of David: and « Asa his son reigned in
his stead. In his days the land was_
quiet ten years.
2 And Asa did that which was xgood ana seht in the_eyes_of /the Lorp his =God :
3 For he took_away +the_altars_of the strange gods, and the high_places, and brake_down «the images, and cut_ down ~the groves :
4 And commanded Judah to seek Jethe Lorp =God_of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
5 Also he took_away out_of all the_ cities_of Judah «the high_places and «the simages: and the kingdom was_ quiet before him.
6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in xthose xyears; because! the Lorp had_given him rest.
7 Therefore he said unto Judah, “tLet_us_build xthese make_about them walls, and towers,
B.C. 957.
§. Sons,
ISRAEL SMITTEN BEFORE JUDAH.
14. Num. 10. 8, 9.
i. ish.
6. SONS.
DEATH OF JEROBOAM. 19, 20. 1 KIN. 14. 19, 20.
954.
ACTS OF ABIJAH. 21, 22. 1 KIN. 15. 7.
d=gates, and bars, while the land is yet
c. or com- mentary.
955. 1, 1 Kin. 15. 8-10. a. Asa, Physician. ASA’S GOOD DEEDS. about 951. 2. CH. xiv.
in Heb. commences
15, 11-15. J. Jehovah.
$. sun- images.
THE LAND
B51