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 of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
• Num 10:8–9“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
• Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Zech 10:5They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
• Jer 50:24I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.
• Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
• Acts 9:4–5He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
• Job 15:25–26Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
• Num 23:21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
• Josh 6:13–20The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.
• Deut 28:29You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
• Deut 20:4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
• Josh 5:13–15When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
• Num 31:6Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
• Isa 8:10Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”
• Num 14:41Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?
• Job 40:9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
• Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
• Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
• 1 Sam 4:5–7When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
• Ezek 17:9“Say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? Not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.
• Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 2:37You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.
• 2 Chr 24:20The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”

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