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2 Chronicles 13
¹⁹ And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephrain with its villages.
²⁰ So Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the Lord struck him, and he died.
²¹ But Abijah grew mighty, married fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
²² Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the annals of the prophet Iddo.
2 Chronicles 14
¹ So Abijah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years.
² Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God,
³ for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.
⁴ He commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment.
⁵ He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.
⁶ And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; he had no war in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.
⁷ Therefore he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us, because we have sought the Lord our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.