2 Chronicles 13:4-6

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⁴Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me! ⁵You should know that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave David and his sons the right to be king over Israel forever. God gave this right to David with an agreement of salt.^[a] ⁶But Jeroboam turned against his master. Jeroboam son of Nebat was one of the servants of David’s son Solomon.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 13:5 agreement of salt When people ate salt together, it meant their agreement of friendship would never be broken. Abijah was saying here that God had made an agreement with David that would never be broken.