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11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly[a] we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him. 12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you.[b] You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors,[c] for you will not win!”

13 Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind.[d] The main army was in front of the Judahite army;[e] the ambushers were behind it.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:11 tn Or “for.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:12 tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 13:12 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).
  4. 2 Chronicles 13:13 tn Heb “and Jeroboam had caused to circle around an ambush to come from behind them.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 13:13 tn Heb “Judah.”