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13 In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Yaraveam (Jeroboam), Aviyah started his reign over Yehudah (Judah). 2 He ruled from Yerushalem for three years. (His mother was Uriel’s daughter Mikayah from Giveah.)
However war started between Aviyah and Yaraveam.
3 Aviyah launched the attack with four-hundred thousand strong warriors, and Yaraveam drew up in formation against him with eight-hundred thousand strong warriors in his army.
4 Aviyah stood on the top of Mt. Tsemarayim in the Efrayim hill-country and shouted, “Yaraveam and all Yisrael, listen to me. 5 Don’t you all understand that Yisrael’s God Yahweh made a formal agreement that the kingdom of Yisrael was given forever to David and his descendants? 6 But Nevat’s son Yaraveam, who was a servant of David’s son Shelomoh, took action and rebelled against his master, 7 and a bunch of wicked good-for-nothings gathered around Yaraveam and created a force against Shelomoh’s son, Rehaveam, when Rehaveam was still an inexperienced, young man and couldn’t stand up to them. 8 So now you’re all saying that you’ll stand against the kingdom that Yahweh established through David’s descendants. There are certainly many of you, and you have the gold calves that Yaraveam made as gods for you all. 9 Didn’t you all drive out the Levites, as well as Yahweh’s priests who were Aharon’s descendants? Then you all appointed for yourselves ‘priests’ like they have in other countries, so that anyone who comes to consecrate himself by bringing a young bull from the herd and seven rams can become a ‘priest’ of your non-gods.
10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our God and we haven’t abandoned him. Our priests who minister to Yahweh are Aharon’s descendants, and the Levites assist them. 11 Every morning and every evening, they sacrifice burnt offerings to Yahweh, and spiced incense. There’s sacred bread on the display table, and the lamps in the gold lampstand give light every evening because we are following the instructions of our God Yahweh, but you all have abandoned him. 12 So listen! God is guiding us and his priests will blast their trumpets to sound against you all. Listen you Israelis: don’t fight against Yahweh, the god of your ancestors, because you won’t succeed.”
13 But meanwhile, Yaraveam had sent some men around to ambush them from behind, so they were both in front of the army from Yehudah and in ambush behind them.
14 When the warriors from Yehudah turned, wow, they realised that they were being attacked from in front and from behind. They called out to Yahweh for help while the priests blew their trumpets. 15 Then the men from Yehudah shouted a loud battle cry and God defeated Yaraveam and all Yisrael in front of Aviyah and Yehudah. 16 Yisrael’s soldiers fled away from Yehudah’s army, and God enabled Yehudah to defeat them. 17 Aviyah and his men thrashed them badly, and some five-hundred thousand of their chosen warriors were killed. 18 So the Israelis were subdued at that time, and the people from Yehudah were victorious because they trusted in Yahweh, the god of their ancestors.
19 Aviyah chased after Yaraveam and they captured the cities of Beyt-El, Yeshanah, and Efron and the surrounding villages from Yisrael. 20 Yaraveam never regained military strength during Aviyah’s reign, and after a time Yahweh struck him with sickness and he died.
21 Meanwhile, Aviyah became more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22 The rest of what Aviyah did, including his sayings and his behaviour, was written down by the prophet Iddo.
15 In the eighteenth year of (Nabat’s son) King Yarave’am’s reign over Israel, Abiyyam became king of Yehudah. 2 (His mother’s name was Maakah, one of Abishalom’s daughters.) He reigned from Yerushalem for three years 3 but he disobeyed God in ways similar to his father—he wasn’t interested in following his god Yahweh completely like his ancestor David had done. 4 However for David’s sake, his god Yahweh gave Abiyyam a son to rule after him—to allow Yerushalem to continue on with a flicker of light[ref] 5 because David had done what Yahweh had said was correct, and throughout his life he hadn’t deviated from what Yahweh had instructed him, except in the matter concerning Uriyyah the Hittite.[ref] 6 Rehavam’s and Yarave’am’s factions were in a continual state of war during Abiyyam’s reign.[ref] 7 Everything else that Abiyyam did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah, as the war between Abiyyam and Yarave’am continued.
8 Then Abiyyam died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David, and his son Asa replaced him as king.
1Ki 11:36:
36 I’ll give Shelomoh’s son one tribe to rule so that one of David’s descendants will always rule in my chosen city Yerushalem because it’s associated with my name.
2Sam 11:1-27:
11 The next spring (when kings usually go to war), David sent Yoav and his officials and all the Israeli warriors, and they defeated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.[ref]
But David stayed in Yerushalem, 2 and early one evening he got up from a nap and walked around the palace roof area. From there he saw a woman bathing, and she was very good-looking. 3 David sent a messenger to find out who she was, and was told, “That’s Eliam’s daughter Batsheva—Uriyyah the Hittite’s wife.” 4 Then he sent messengers to get her, and she came and he slept with her. (She had been purifying herself after the completion of her menstrual period.) Then she returned to her house.
5 After some time, the woman realised that she was pregnant, and so she informed David. 6 David sent to Yoav, “Send Uriyyah the Hittite here to me.” So Yoav sent Uriyyah to David. 7 When he arrived, David asked him about how Yoav and his men were doing, and how the battle was going, 8 then he told him, “Go to your house and relax.” So Uriyyah left the palace and the king sent a gift to be delivered to his house. 9 But Uriyyah didn’t go home—instead he slept at the palace entrance with all the king’s servants, 10 The next day, David was informed that Uriyyah didn’t go home to his house, so he asked him, “Didn’t you just get back from a long journey? Why didn’t you go home?”
11 “The sacred chest and the warriors from Yisrael and Yehudah are living in tents,” Uriyyah replied. “And my master, Yoav, and my master’s servants are camping out in the open. So I couldn’t just go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife. By your life and by the life of your spirit, I couldn’t do that.”
12 “Well, stay here today also,” David told him, “and tomorrow I’ll send you back.” So Uriyyah stayed in Yerushalem that day and the following day, 13 and David summoned him over, and they ate and drank together, and David got him drunk. But even then, Uriyyah didn’t go back to his house, but when he left in the evening he went back to sleep in the dorm with his master’s servants.
14 The next morning, David wrote a note to Yoav and told Uriyyah to deliver it. 15 He’d written, “Place Uriyyah in the front where the fighting is strongest, then fall back from behind him so that he’ll be struck and die.” 16 So as Yoav was surrounding the city, he placed Uriyyah where he knew the strongest enemy warriors would be fighting. 17 The warriors from the city came out and fought against Yoav’s men, and some of David’s servants were killed and so was Uriyyah.
18 Then Yoav sent a messenger to David to give him a full account of the battle. 19 He told the messenger, “Once you’ve finished telling all the details of the battle to the king, 20 if he gets angry and asks, ‘Why did you all go so close in to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they’d shoot down from the wall? 21 Wasn’t Yerub-Beshet’s son Abimilek killed by a woman in Tevets when she threw a millstone down from the wall? Why did you approach the wall?’ Then you should say, ‘Your servant Uriyyah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”[ref]
22 So the messenger left and went and told David everything that Yoav had told him, 23 saying, “Their men gained ground and came out against us in the countryside, but we forced them back to their city gate. 24 Then their archers were shooting at your men from the top of the wall and some of your men were killed, including your servant Uriyyah the Hittite.”
25 David sent the messenger back to encourage Yoav, “Don’t let yourself be upset by what happened because no one knows who might die in a battle. Reinforce your battle against the city and tear it down.”
26 When Uriyyah’s wife Batsheva heard that her husband had been killed, she mourned for him. 27 When her time of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace. She became a wife to him and bore a son for him, but Yahweh was unhappy about what David had done.
2Ch 13:3-21:
3 Aviyah launched the attack with four-hundred thousand strong warriors, and Yaraveam drew up in formation against him with eight-hundred thousand strong warriors in his army.
4 Aviyah stood on the top of Mt. Tsemarayim in the Efrayim hill-country and shouted, “Yaraveam and all Yisrael, listen to me. 5 Don’t you all understand that Yisrael’s God Yahweh made a formal agreement that the kingdom of Yisrael was given forever to David and his descendants? 6 But Nevat’s son Yaraveam, who was a servant of David’s son Shelomoh, took action and rebelled against his master, 7 and a bunch of wicked good-for-nothings gathered around Yaraveam and created a force against Shelomoh’s son, Rehaveam, when Rehaveam was still an inexperienced, young man and couldn’t stand up to them. 8 So now you’re all saying that you’ll stand against the kingdom that Yahweh established through David’s descendants. There are certainly many of you, and you have the gold calves that Yaraveam made as gods for you all. 9 Didn’t you all drive out the Levites, as well as Yahweh’s priests who were Aharon’s descendants? Then you all appointed for yourselves ‘priests’ like they have in other countries, so that anyone who comes to consecrate himself by bringing a young bull from the herd and seven rams can become a ‘priest’ of your non-gods.
10 “But as for us, Yahweh is our God and we haven’t abandoned him. Our priests who minister to Yahweh are Aharon’s descendants, and the Levites assist them. 11 Every morning and every evening, they sacrifice burnt offerings to Yahweh, and spiced incense. There’s sacred bread on the display table, and the lamps in the gold lampstand give light every evening because we are following the instructions of our God Yahweh, but you all have abandoned him. 12 So listen! God is guiding us and his priests will blast their trumpets to sound against you all. Listen you Israelis: don’t fight against Yahweh, the god of your ancestors, because you won’t succeed.”
13 But meanwhile, Yaraveam had sent some men around to ambush them from behind, so they were both in front of the army from Yehudah and in ambush behind them.
14 When the warriors from Yehudah turned, wow, they realised that they were being attacked from in front and from behind. They called out to Yahweh for help while the priests blew their trumpets. 15 Then the men from Yehudah shouted a loud battle cry and God defeated Yaraveam and all Yisrael in front of Aviyah and Yehudah. 16 Yisrael’s soldiers fled away from Yehudah’s army, and God enabled Yehudah to defeat them. 17 Aviyah and his men thrashed them badly, and some five-hundred thousand of their chosen warriors were killed. 18 So the Israelis were subdued at that time, and the people from Yehudah were victorious because they trusted in Yahweh, the god of their ancestors.
19 Aviyah chased after Yaraveam and they captured the cities of Beyt-El, Yeshanah, and Efron and the surrounding villages from Yisrael. 20 Yaraveam never regained military strength during Aviyah’s reign, and after a time Yahweh struck him with sickness and he died.
21 Meanwhile, Aviyah became more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.