2 Chronicles 13:1 meaning and explanation
In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah,
2 Chronicles 13:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The Chronicler dates Abijah’s accession by the reign of Jeroboam, the northern king, an unusual move that already signals the divided kingdom’s tangled politics. Abijah (called Abijam in 1 Kings) ruled Judah in Jerusalem only three years, and this verse sets his brief reign against Jeroboam’s longer one.
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