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And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:

בְּהַ֣ר (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

בְּיַ֖ד (בְּ) be. “in”

And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest

בְּפַ֤ר (בְּ) be. “with”

But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;

בַּמְלָֽאכֶת׃ (בַּ) ba “[are] in the”

By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders giv

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 now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.

בָרֹ֜אשׁ (בָ) va. “at the”

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃ (בַּ) ba. “on”

And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

בְּהָרִ֙יעַ֙ (בְּ) be. “when”

And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.

בְּיָדָֽם׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

בָהֶ֛ם (בָ) va. “among”

So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

בִּימֵ֣י (בִּ) bi. “in”

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

בְּמִדְרַ֖שׁ (בְּ) be. “in”

So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.

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

And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

בְּעֵינֵ֖י (בְּ) be. “in”

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

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

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

בְּחַ֙יִל֙ (בְּ) be. “with”

And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.

בְּגֵ֥יא (בְּ) be. “in”

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O L

וּבְשִׁמְךָ֣ (בְ) ve. “in”

And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

בָהֶֽם׃ (בָ) va. “in”

And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

בִּֽהְיֽוֹתְכֶ֣ם (בִּֽ) bi “when”

But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

בַּצַּר־ (בַּ) ba. “when <the>”

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

וּבָעִתִּ֣ים (בָ) va. “in the”

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

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

And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

בִּרְאֹתָ֕ם (בִּ) bi “when”