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2 Chronicles 13 — Sermon Preparation
Abijah defeats Jeroboam's larger army in battle, relying on the priests' trumpets and calling on the LORD while Judah is surrounded. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 13, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 13 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲבִיָּה | ʼĂbîyâh | H29 | 11 | Abijah |
| יָרׇבְעָם | Yârobʻâm | H3379 | 10 | Jarobam |
| יְהוּדָה | Yᵉhûwdâh | H3063 | 8 | Jehudah |
| כֹּהֵן | kôhên | H3548 | 6 | officiating, priest |
| מִלְחָמָה | milchâmâh | H4421 | 5 | battle, engagement |
| עֶרֶב | ʻereb | H6153 | 4 | dusk |
| בַּת | bath | H1323 | 5 | daughter |
How preachers through history handled this text
3 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 13, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“THE SECRET OF VICTORY The children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers.'--2 CHRON. xiii. 18. These words are the summing-up of the story of a strange old-world battle between Jeroboam, the adventurer who rent the kingdom, and Abijah, the son of the foolish Rehoboam, whose unseasonable blustering had played into the usurper's hands. The son was a wiser and better man than his father. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap., on 2 Chronicles 13:18–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Bethel 1— 2 Chr 13:19
- Ephron 2— 2 Chr 13:19
- Jeshanah— 2 Chr 13:19
- Gibeah 2— 2 Chr 13:2
- Jerusalem— 2 Chr 13:2
- Mount Zemaraim— 2 Chr 13:4
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