The Second Book of Chronicles
13: 1In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. 13:2Three years
reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And
there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 13:3And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant
men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against
him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor. 13:4And Abijah
stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O
Jeroboam and all Israel: 13:5Ought ye not to know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, gave the
kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? 13:6Yet
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against
his lord. 13:7And there were gathered unto him worthless men, base fellows, that strengthened
themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and
tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 13:8And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of
Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and there are with you the
golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods. 13:9Have ye not driven out the priests of
Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples
of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven
rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods. 13:10But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and
we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering unto Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and
the Levites in their work: 13:11and they burn unto Jehovah every morning and every evening
burnt-offerings and sweet incense: the showbread 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
Jehovah our God; but ye have forsaken him. 13:12And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his
priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not
against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. 13:13But Jeroboam caused an
ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was
behind them. 13:14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them;
and they cried unto Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 13:15Then the men of Judah
gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all
Israel before Abijah and Judah. 13:16And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God
delivered them into their hand. 13:17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so
there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 13:18Thus the children of Israel
were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon
Jehovah, the God of their fathers. 13:19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from
him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephron with the
towns thereof. 13:20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Jehovah
smote him, and he died. 13:21But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and
begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 13:22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his
ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.