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and they burn to Jehovah every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense; the loaves also are set in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps to burn every evening: for *we* keep the charge of Jehovah our God; but *ye* have forsaken him.
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And behold, we have God with us at our head, and his priests, and the loud-sounding trumpets to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, do not fight with Jehovah the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
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But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them.
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And Judah looked back, and behold, they had the battle in front and behind; and they cried to Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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And 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.
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And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
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And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
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And the children of Israel were humbled at that time, and the children of Judah were strengthened, because they relied upon Jehovah the God of their fathers.
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And 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.
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And Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and Jehovah smote him, and he died.
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But Abijah strengthened himself, and took fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.