12 And behold, this God is [a]with us as a captain, and his Priests with the sounding trumpets to cry an alarm against you. O ye children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.

13 ¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment [b]to compass, and come behind them, when they were before Judah, and the ambushment behind them.

14 Then Judah looked, and behold, the battle was before and behind them, and they cried unto the Lord, and the Priests blew with the trumpets,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:12 Because their cause was good and approved by the Lord, they doubted not of the success and victory.
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:13 Contemning the good counsel which came of the Spirit of God, he thought to have overcome by deceit.

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