2 Chronicles 13:4

And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2 Chronicles 13:4, King James Version

2 Chronicles 13:4 in other translations

BSB	Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
WEB	Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
ASV	And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:
YLT	And Abijah riseth up on the hill of Zemaraim that is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and saith, ‘Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
DARBY	And Abijah stood up on the top of mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam, and all Israel!
BBE	And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:
Webster	And Abijah stood upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

What does 2 Chronicles 13:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 13:4-12

4-12. Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim--He had entered the enemy's territory and was encamped on an eminence near Beth-el (Jos 18:22). Jeroboam's army lay at the foot of the hill, and as a pitched battle was expected, Abijah, according to the singular usage of ancient times, harangued the enemy. The speakers in such circumstances, while always extolling their own merits, poured out torrents of invective and virulent abuse upon the adversary. So did Abijah. He dwelt on the divine right of the house of David to the throne; and sinking all reference to the heaven-condemned offenses of Solomon and the divine appointment of Jeroboam, as well as the divine sanction of the separation, he upbraided Jeroboam as a usurper, and his subjects as rebels, who took advantage of the youth and inexperience of Rehoboam. Then contrasting the religious state of the two kingdoms, he drew a black picture of the impious innovations and gross idolatry introduced by Jeroboam, with his expulsion and impoverishment (2Ch 11:14) of the Levites. He dwelt with reasonable pride on the pure and regular observance of the ancient institutions of Moses in his own dominion [2Ch 13:11] and concluded with this emphatic appeal: "O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers, for ye shall not prosper."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 4 Stood up upon Mount Zemaraim - "Which was a mount of the tribe of the house of Ephraim." - Targum. Jarchi thinks that Abijah went to the confines of the tribe of Ephraim to attack Jeroboam. It could not be Shomeron, the mount on which Samaria was built in the days of Omri king of Israel, 1Kgs 16:24.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

2 Chronicles 13:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּ֣קָםvai.Ya.komand he stoodH6965

אֲבִיָּ֗ה'a.vi.YahAbijahH29

מֵעַל֙me.'Al<from> onH5921

לְהַ֣רle.Har<to> [the] mountain ofH2022

צְמָרַ֔יִםtze.ma.Ra.yimZemaraimH6787

אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherwhichH834

בְּהַ֣רbe.Har[is] in [the] hill country ofH2022

אֶפְרָ֑יִם'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669

וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559

שְׁמָע֖וּנִיshe.ma.'U.nilisten to meH8085

יָרָבְעָ֥םya.ra.ve.'AmO JeroboamH3379

וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605

יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 13:4

Joshua 18:22
And Beth–arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth–el,
Judges 9:7
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
Genesis 10:18
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zemaraim.Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, [Shômerown ,] so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; but was probably a hill on the confines of Ephraim, near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.
Ge 10:18; Jos 18:22
Hear me.
15:2; Jud 9:7

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Context

2 Chronicles 13:3
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 13:4
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
2 Chronicles 13:5
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?

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2 Chronicles 13:4 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y levantóse Abías sobre el monte de Semaraim, que es en los montes de Ephraim, y dijo: Oidme, Jeroboam y todo Israel.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et Abija se tint sur le haut de la montagne de Tsemaraïm, qui est dans la montagne d’Éphraïm, et dit: Écoutez-moi, Jéroboam et tout Israël!
German Elberfelder 1871	Da stellte sich Abija oben auf den Berg Zemaraim, der im Gebirge Ephraim liegt, und sprach: Höret mich, Jerobeam und ganz Israel!
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Stetit ergo Abia super montem Semeron, qui erat in Ephraim, et ait: Audi, Jeroboam, et omnis Israël.