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The Judicial Battle of Mount Tsemarayim and the Covenant of Salt
Now in the eighteenth year of king Yarabeam began Abiyahu to reign over Yahudah.
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He reigned three years in Yarushalayim. His mother's name also was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abiyahu and Yarabeam.
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The Military Mobilization
And Abiyahu set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Yarabeam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor.
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The Proclamation from the High Altitude
And Abiyahu stood up upon mount Tsemarayim, which is in mount Ephrayim, and said, "Hear me, thou Yarabeam, and all Yashar'al;"
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The Covenant of Salt Protocol
"Ought ye not to know that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Yashar'al gave the kingdom over Yashar'al to Dawid forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?"
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The Indictment of the Yarabeam Rebellion
"Yet Yarabeam the son of Nebat, the servant of Shalumoh the son of Dawid, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his adun."
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"And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehabam the son of Shalumoh, when Rehabam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them."
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The Confrontation of the Golden Calves
"And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in the hand of the sons of Dawid; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Yarabeam made you for lo alahiym."
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The Rejection of the Priest Frequency
"Have ye not cast out the priests of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the sons of Aharun, and the Lawiytes, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no alahiym."
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The Preservation of the Tzadokite Order
"But as for us, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is our Alahiym, and we have not forsaken Him; and the priests, which minister unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, are the sons of Aharun, and the Lawiytes wait upon their business:"
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The Maintenance of the Portal Frequencies
"And they burn unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Alahiym; but ye have forsaken Him."
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The Celestial Captaincy
"And, behold, Alahiym Himself is with us for our captain, and His priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Yashar'al, fight ye not against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper."
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The Ambush of the Northern Matrix
But Yarabeam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Yahudah, and the ambushment was behind them.
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The Cry for Interception
And when Yahudah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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The Acoustic Shout and the Divine Strike
Then the men of Yahudah gave a shout: and as the men of Yahudah shouted, it came to pass, that Alahiym smote Yarabeam and all Yashar'al before Abiyahu and Yahudah.
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And the children of Yashar'al fled before Yahudah: and Alahiym delivered them into their hand.
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The Massive Slaughter of the Uncalibrated
And Abiyahu and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Yashar'al five hundred thousand chosen men.
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The Prevailing Frequency of Reliance
Thus the children of Yashar'al were brought under at that time, and the children of Yahudah prevailed, because they relied upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of their fathers.
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The Reclamation of the Border Cities
And Abiyahu pursued after Yarabeam, and took cities from him, Beyt-El with the towns thereof, and Yeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrayin with the towns thereof.
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The Termination of the Yarabeam Frequency
Neither did Yarabeam recover strength again in the days of Abiyahu: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 struck him, and he died.
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The Expansion of Abiyahu
But Abiyahu waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
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The Midrash of Iddo
And the rest of the acts of Abiyahu, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.