Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 984
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
anger of the LORD turned from them, and they were not completely deso- lated ; and comforting messages also came to Judah, so King Rehaboam settled himself in jerusalem, and reigned. Rehaboam was forty-one years old
at his Coronation, and he reigned seventeen years in jerusalem, the City that the Even-L1v1N<; had chosen from all the Tribes of Israel to tix His NAME there. His mother's name was Namah the Amonith. But he did wrong, for he did not fix his heart to seek the EVER—L1V1NG. How- ever, the doings of Rehaboam, the first and the last, are they not recorded in the Histories of Shemiah the Reciter, and also the Prophet, with his Geneal0gY, and the Wars of Rehaboam, and jerabam all the time? 16 At last Rehaboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David, and Abiah his son reigned in his stead. (958 B.C·.) $Irish begins in iizigtt.
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In the eighteenth year of Kingjerabam, Abiah began to reign over udah. He was King for three years in jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Makah, the daughter of Aurial of Gibaah. When war began between Abiah and jerabam, Abiah arranged the battle with a force of disciplined soldiers of four hun- dred thousand men, and jerabam arrayed against him for battle with a force of eight hundred thousand men, trained troops, And Abiah occupied the top of the Zimarim hills, which are in Mount Ephraim, and pro- claimed 2-- Listen jerabam, and the army of Israel ;—— ‘Is it not known to you that the
FEVER-LIVING GOD of Israel gave the Kings-zhip over Israel to David for ever ?--·’l`o him, and to his sons, by a Covenant of Salt? But jerabam; ben·Nebat, an Ofticer of Solomon,- ben~David rebelled against his Master, and idle fellows, men of Belial, col- lected to him, and encouraged him against Rehaboam, — ben - Solomon, when Rehaboam was young and light— hearted, and could not resist them. So now you think to resist the King» ship ofthe LORD, in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great mob, and the Golden Calves that jerabam made for your Gods are with you! ‘ Have you not expelled the Priests
ofthe Evan-L1v1No, the Beni Aaron, and the Levites, and made yourselves Priests like the peoples of the coun- tries, so that every one who goes to fill his hands with a bullock and seven rams, can become a Priest to the Not—gods ? ‘But for u‘s,——the Evan-Lrvmo is
our Goo, and we will not forsake him i And our Priests, who serve the IO EvER—LIv1NG, are descendants of Aaron, and the Levites are assistants, who consume to the EvER—‘LIVING, xr morning by morning, Burnoofferings ; and evening by evening; and present perfumes, and arrange bread on the pure table, with the Golden Lamps, and their Reilectors, to burn from dusk to dusk. For we regard the Trusts of the EVER-LIVING, our Goo, but you have abandoned them.
So look out for Gob is at our head, andHis Priests with trumpets to sound an alarrnagainst you.——Sons of Israel, iight not against the Evan-Lrvnvo, the Goo of your fathers, for you will not prosper ! But jerabam directed an ambush
to go to their rear.- Thus he was at the front of judah, and the ambuscade at their rear, and when judah turned, they saw there was a battle for them before and behind; so they cried to the Evnn—L1v1No, and the Priests sounded with the trumpets; and the men of judah cheered ; and when the men of judah cheered, GoD defeated jerabam, and the Israelite forces be· fore Abiah and judah. Thus the Children of Israel were
routed before judah, and GOD gave them into their hand ; and Abiah and his army defeated them,with a crush— ing defeat, and five hundred thousand brave men of Israel fell wounded. 984 I2 16
