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2 Chronicles 13:2

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and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

KJV

He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Abijah became king of Judah

on 2 Chronicles 13:1-3

Kings gives this reign three verses and names the king Abijam, a man who walked in his father's sins. The armies of verse 3, 400,000 against 800,000, are reported only here. Barnes ties the gap to the move of northern priests and Levites into Judah that Chronicles recorded at 11:13-17.

This site's exposition

he reigned in Jerusalem three years

Abijah reigned three years, and there was war with Jeroboam. Barnes observes that Chronicles tells this reign far more fully than Kings does, above all the war with Jeroboam. Gill adds that the battle this chapter records is absent from the book of Kings.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

He reigned three years in Jerusalem,.... See Gill on 1Ki 15:2, his mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah; see 2Ch 11:20; see Gill on 1Ki 15:2. and there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam; and in this chapter is an account of a battle fought between them, not recorded in the book of Kings.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

His mother’s name - was Michaiah - See on 2Ch 11:20 (note).

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Three years he reigned in Jerusalem and no more, as is proven in I Kings (15:9): “And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Asa reigned over Judah.” We find that he did not reign even three whole years.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 13:2:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king. We do not know why his assumption of the kingship was delayed one year.
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on II Chronicles 13:1:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שָׁל֣וֹשׁthree

    shalooshH7969 →432 times

  • שָׁנִ֗יםyears

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • מָלַךְ֙he reigned

    malakhH4427 →348 times

  • בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • וְשֵׁ֣םand [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • אִמּ֔וֹmother his

    ʾimoH517 →220 times

  • מִיכָיָ֥הוּ[was] Micaiah

    mikhayahuH4322 →

  • בַת־[the] daughter of

    vat-H1323 →588 times

  • אוּרִיאֵ֖לUriel

    ʾurielH222 →

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • גִּבְעָ֑הGibeah

    givahH1390 →

  • וּמִלְחָמָ֥הand war

    umilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • הָיְתָ֛הit was

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • בֵּ֥יןbetween

    beinH996 →407 times

  • אֲבִיָּ֖הAbijah

    ʾaviyahH29 →25 times

  • וּבֵ֥יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • יָרָבְעָֽם׃Jeroboam

    yaraveamH3379 →104 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 11:20After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.4 works1 Kings 15:2and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.4 works1 Kings 15:6–7And there was war between the houses of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Abijam’s life.3 worksJudges 19:14So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.2 works1 Samuel 10:26Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.2 worksJoshua 18:28Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Judges 19:16That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.2 works1 Kings 15:10and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 10:26

    Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 11:4

      When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

    • Acts 7:10

      and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

    • 1 Samuel 15:34

      Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

    • Joshua 18:28

      Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

    • Acts 13:48

      When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 11:20

    After her, he married Maacah daughter of Absalom, and she bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 1:7

      Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

    • 2 Chronicles 11:21

      Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

    • 2 Chronicles 12:16

      And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Abijah reigned in his place.

Where this verse is studied

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Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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