Ambush Ambushment Attack Behind Caused Facing Front Jeroboam Jerobo'am Judah Rear Round Secretly Stationed Surprise Thus Troops
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment {m} to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.
(m) Contemning the good counsel which came from the Spirit of God, he thought to have overcome by deceit.
13:13 Jeroboam - While Abijah was discoursing, Jeroboam takes the advantage of it to lay an ambush. It does not appear that he made any answer to all that Abijah said. The longest sword he thinks will determine the matter, not the better cause.
13:1-22 Abijah overcomes Jeroboam. - Jeroboam and his people, by apostacy and idolatry, merited the severe punishment Abijah was permitted to execute upon them. It appears from the character of Abijah, 1Ki 15:3, that he was not himself truly religious, yet he encouraged himself from the religion of his people. It is common for those that deny the power of godliness, to boast of the form of it. Many that have little religion themselves, value it in others. But it was true that there were numbers of pious worshippers in Judah, and that theirs was the more righteous cause. In their distress, when danger was on every side, which way should they look for deliverance unless upward? It is an unspeakable comfort, that our way thither is always open. They cried unto the Lord. Earnest prayer is crying. To the cry of prayer they added the shout of faith, and became more than conquerors. Jeroboam escaped the sword of Abijah, but God struck him; there is no escaping his sword.
Ambush Ambushment Attack Caused Facing Front Israel Jeroboam Jerobo'am Judah Others Rear Round Stationed Surprise Troops
Ambush Ambushment Attack Caused Facing Front Israel Jeroboam Jerobo'am Judah Others Rear Round Stationed Surprise Troops
