H9003–/ב–b

And Abijah stood upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

בְּהַ֣ר (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

בְּיַ֖ד (בְּ) be. “in”

Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made for you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

בְּפַ֤ר (בְּ) be. “with”

But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, who minister to the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

בַּמְלָֽאכֶת׃ (בַּ) ba “[are] in the”

And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt-sacrifices and sweet incense: the show-bread also they set in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

בַּבֹּֽקֶר־ (בַּ) ba. “in the”בַּבֹּ֣קֶר (בַּ) ba. “in the”וּבָעֶֽרֶב־ (בָ) va. “in the”בָּעֶ֣רֶב (בָּ) ba. “in the”בָּעֶ֣רֶב (בָּ) ba. “in the”בָּעֶ֔רֶב (בָּ) ba. “in the”

And behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye will not prosper.

בָרֹ֜אשׁ (בָ) va. “at the”

And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried to the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃ (בַּ) ba. “on”

Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

בְּהָרִ֙יעַ֙ (בְּ) be. “when”

And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

בְּיָדָֽם׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

בָהֶ֛ם (בָ) va. “among”

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.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

בִּימֵ֣י (בִּ) bi. “in”

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

בְּמִדְרַ֖שׁ (בְּ) be. “in”

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

בְּעִ֣יר (בְּ) be. “in”בְּיָמָ֛יו (בְּ) be. “in”

And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

בְּעֵינֵ֖י (בְּ) be. “in”

And he built fortified cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

בִּיהוּדָ֑ה (בִּ) bi. “in”בַּשָּׁנִ֣ים (בַּ) ba. “in the”

And there came out against them Zerah the Cushite, with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came to Mareshah.

בְּחַ֙יִל֙ (בְּ) be. “with”

Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathath at Mareshah.

בְּגֵ֥יא (בְּ) be. “in”

And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

וּבְשִׁמְךָ֣ (בְ) ve. “in”

And they smote all the cities about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they plundered all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

בָהֶֽם׃ (בָ) va. “in”

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

בִּֽהְיֽוֹתְכֶ֣ם (בִּֽ) bi “when”

But when they in their trouble returned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

בַּצַּר־ (בַּ) ba. “when <the>”

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

וּבָעִתִּ֣ים (בָ) va. “in the”

And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for God troubled them with all adversity.

בְּג֖וֹי (בְּ) be. “by”בְּעִ֑יר (בְּ) be. “by”בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “with”

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they resorted to him out of Israel in multitudes, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

בִּרְאֹתָ֕ם (בִּ) bi “when”