2 Chronicles 13:11

And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread 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 the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

The verse belongs to the divided kingdom period, when Israel had turned away from God under Jeroboam and his successors. It is part of Abijah's appeal to Israel during his war with Jeroboam in defense of Judah, in which Judah claims to keep the Lord's worship and commands while Israel has forsaken Him, warns that opposing the Lord will not prosper, and invokes God's enduring covenant with David.

The verse presents Judah as keeping the charge, worship, and commands of the Lord in contrast with Israel's forsaking Him and rebellion against Him. That contrast is shown in Judah's priests keeping the regular temple worship as obedience to God's charge. The regular daily worship listed is the priests' burning of burnt sacrifices and sweet incense every morning and evening, setting the shewbread in order upon the pure table, and lighting the golden candlestick with its lamps to burn every evening.

These duties exemplify the daily priestly service in the first apartment of the earthly sanctuary, to which the golden candlestick and its lamps belonged, distinct from the high priest's yearly service in the second apartment. The burning lamps of the candlestick correspond to the seven lamps before God's throne in the heavenly sanctuary and represent the Holy Spirit in all its operations. The candlestick was lit every evening and its lamps burned during the night, showing that evening can refer to the night portion of a day.

The verse is part of the account of the war between Judah and Israel in the reigns of Abijah and Jeroboam, in which Judah conquered. In that war Judah's army was vastly outnumbered and attacked from front and rear, but when Abijah called on the Lord the Lord helped Judah and Judah defeated Israel. Judah's faithfulness under Abijah applies to the American Civil War as an example to the North: the government should not have opposed God by establishing Southern slavery, and had it followed Abijah's example the rebellion would have ended by then.