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King Abijah of Judah climbs Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and delivers a ringing covenant speech denouncing Jeroboams northern rebellion as illegitimate — invoking the salt-covenant with David and the Aaronic priesthood — before his 400000 men defeat Jeroboams 800000 in the battle that follows.
2 Chronicles 13:4-12 records King Abijah of Judah's ringing pre-battle speech from Mount Zemaraim: "And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" Abijah laid out the theological case against Jeroboam's northern rebellion — the illegitimate priesthood, the golden calves, the broken Davidic covenant — and the four-hundred-thousand-man Judean army went on to defeat Jeroboam's eight-hundred-thousand at Mount Zemaraim, capturing Bethel Jeshanah and Ephron in the rout.
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