The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
CH2 13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time,
and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD
God of their fathers.
CH2 13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and
Ephraim with the towns thereof.
CH2 13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
CH2 13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and
begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
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