4. When the army of Judah arrived in the hill country of Ephraim, Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim and shouted to Jeroboam and all Israel: “Listen to me!
5. Don’t you realize that the lord, the God of Israel, made a lasting covenant with David, giving him and his descendants the throne of Israel forever?
6. Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a mere servant of David’s son Solomon, rebelled against his master.
7. Then a whole gang of scoundrels joined him, defying Solomon’s son Rehoboam when he was young and inexperienced and could not stand up to them.