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1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.
4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and said, Listen to me, Jeroboam, and all Israel;
5 Do you not know that the LORD [Yahweh] God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, has risen up, and has rebelled against his lord.
7 And there are gathered with him no good men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
8 And now you plan to withstand the kingdom of the LORD [Yahweh] in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD [Yahweh], the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests for yourself just like the nations of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, may be a priest of [those that are] no gods.
10 But as for us, the LORD [Yahweh] [is] our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister to the LORD [Yahweh], [are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their] business:
11 And they burn to the LORD [Yahweh] every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also they set in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD [Yahweh] our God; but you have forsaken him.
12 And, look, God himself [is] with us as [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD [Yahweh] God of your fathers; for you will not succeed.
13 But Jeroboam set up an ambush behind them: so they were in front of Judah, and the ambush [was] behind them.
14 And when Judah looked back, the battle [was] in front and behind: and they cried to the LORD [Yahweh], and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD [Yahweh] God of their fathers.
19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephrain with its towns.
20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD [Yahweh] struck him, and he died.
21 But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and had twenty two sons, and sixteen daughters.
22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.