And, behold, God himself is with us for our Captain,.... To go before our armies, and fight our battles for us: and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you; which was one use of the trumpets, that the people might be remembered by the Lord, and saved from their enemies, Num 10:9, so that this circumstance was against Jeroboam and his army, and for Abijah and his: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for fighting against his people, that retained the pure worship of him, was fighting against him: for you shall not prosper; he seems to be assured of victory.