{"id":6091,"date":"2017-07-24T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=6091"},"modified":"2017-07-24T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:01:06","slug":"but-as-for-us-the-lord-is-our-god-and-we-have-not-forsaken-him-2-chronicles-1310-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/but-as-for-us-the-lord-is-our-god-and-we-have-not-forsaken-him-2-chronicles-1310-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken Him&#8221; (2 Chronicles 13:10 NKJV)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8h263\" data-offset-key=\"2rm3k-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2rm3k-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2rm3k-0-0\">King Abijah of Judah, the great grandson of David, urged Jeroboam and his Northern tribes not to fight against them because they would be fighting against the Lord Himself. But Israel&#8217;s armies outnumbered Judah&#8217;s 2-to-1, so Jeroboam was over-confident and surrounded Judah to attack. Yet, God fought for Judah and Israel was soundly defeated. Abijah tried to reason with Jeroboam to avoid bloodshed, but he depended on the Lord to defend him and his army when conflict came. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8h263\" data-offset-key=\"iqn8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"iqn8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"iqn8-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8h263\" data-offset-key=\"dmad0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dmad0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dmad0-0-0\">Sometimes conflict is inevitable in this fallen world. On whom do you depend in such times?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Abijah of Judah, the great grandson of David, urged Jeroboam and his Northern tribes not to fight against them because they would be fighting against the Lord Himself. But  Israel&#8217;s armies outnumbered Judah&#8217;s 2-to-1, so Jeroboam was over-confident and surrounded Judah to attack. Yet, God fought for Judah and Israel was soundly defeated. Abijah tried to reason with Jeroboam to avoid bloodshed, but he depended on the Lord to defend him and his army when conflict came. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes conflict is inevitable in this fallen world. On whom do you depend in such times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1281],"scripture-chapter":[1346],"oyb_day":[1732],"location":[],"class_list":["post-6091","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-2-chronicles","scripture-chapter-1346","oyb_day-july-24"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}