* the Lord.
   We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him
   according to His own law.  But what Abijah urged concerning
   the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as
   spoken by him, it favoured ostentation.  Abijah himself was
   but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently
   connived at in his days.  Yet it was true, that the men of
   Judah had the priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah
   among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in
   the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that
   Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel
   fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with
   the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.

  11:16,17  Ex 19:5,6  Zec 13:9 
 * the priests.
  Ex 29:1-37  Nu 16:40  18:1-7