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Abijah started the battle with an army of 400,000 specially chosen valiant soldiers, but Jeroboam opposed him with 800,000 specially chosen valiant soldiers. Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and announced:

“Listen to me, Jeroboam and Israel! Don’t you know that the Lord God of Israel assigned the kingship over Israel to David and his descendants forever by a salt covenant?[a]

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