2 Chronicles 13:12

Abijah declares that God is with Judah at their head, and warns Israel not to fight against the LORD, for they cannot succeed. The battle is framed as resistance to God himself.

Cross-references · 25

• Acts 5:39But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
• Num 10:8–9The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you and the generations to come.
• Rom 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Zech 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
• Jer 50:24I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
• Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
• Acts 9:4–5He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
• Job 15:25–26For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
• Num 23:21He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
• Josh 6:13–20And the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.
• Deut 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
• Deut 20:4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
• Josh 5:13–15Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”
• Num 31:6And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
• Isa 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
• Num 14:41But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
• Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
• Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
• Heb 2:10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
• 1 Sam 4:5–7When the ark of the covenant of the LORD entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a great shout that it shook the ground.
• Ezek 17:9So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
• Isa 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
• Jer 2:37Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
• 2 Chr 24:20Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”

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