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12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you.[a] You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors,[b] for you will not win!”

13 Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind.[c] The main army was in front of the Judahite army;[d] the ambushers were behind it. 14 The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear.[e] So they cried out to the Lord for help. The priests blew their trumpets,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:12 tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:12 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).
  3. 2 Chronicles 13:13 tn Heb “and Jeroboam had caused to circle around an ambush to come from behind them.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 13:13 tn Heb “Judah.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 13:14 tn Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”