2 Chronicles 13
13:1In the eighteenth year of the kingdom of Jeroboam, Abijah took reign over Judah.
13:2Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Michaiah daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and between Jeroboam.
13:3And Abijah deployed for the war with a force of warriors of power -- four hundred thousand chosen men. And Jeroboam deployed against him for war with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty warriors of power.
13:4And Abijah rose up from mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
13:5Is it not to you to know that the lord God of Israel appointed the kingdom to David over Israel into the eon, and to his sons for a covenant of salt?
13:6And Jeroboam son of Nebat rose up, the servant of Solomon son of David, and revolted from his master.
13:7And there gathered together with him mischievous men, sons of lawbreakers, and they grew in strength against Rehoboam son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was younger and timid in heart, and he did not fortify against their face.
13:8And now you speak to oppose against the face of the kingdom of the lord in the hand of the sons of David, and you are a vast multitude, and with you calves of gold which Jeroboam made for you as gods.
13:9Or did you not cast out the priests of the lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites; and you made to yourselves priests from the people of the land? Even every one approaching filling his hand with a calf, an offspring of the herd, and seven rams, and he becomes as a priest to the one not being God.
13:10And we did not abandon the lord our God. And his priests officiate to the lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their daily rotations.
13:11And they burn to the lord whole burnt-offerings morning by morning, and evening to evening, and they have the incense composition, and place settings of bread loaves upon the pure table, and the gold lamp-stand, and its lamps to light evening by evening. For we guard the watch of the lord, the God of our fathers; but you abandoned him.
13:12And behold, with us as head is the lord, and his priests, and the signal trumpets to signify against you. Sons of Israel, you should not wage war against the lord God of your fathers; for your ways shall not be prospered.
13:13And Jeroboam circled an ambush to come from behind them. And they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was from the places behind.
13:14And Judah turned, and behold, the battle was against them from the places in front and from the places posterior. And they yelled to the lord, and the priests trumped the trumpets.
13:15And the men of Judah shouted. And it happened when the men of Judah shouted, that the lord struck Jeroboam and Israel before Abijah and Judah.
13:16And the sons of Israel fled from the face of Judah, and the lord delivered them into their hands.
13:17And Abijah and his people struck them with a great calamity. And there fell slain of Israel -- five hundred thousand mighty men.
13:18And the sons of Israel were abased in that day, and the sons of Judah grew strong, for they hoped upon the lord the God of their fathers.
13:19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and first took from him the cities of Beth-el and her towns, and Jeshanah and her towns, and Ephrain and her towns.
13:20And Jeroboam did not have strength any more during all the days of Abijah. And the lord struck him, and he died.
13:21And Abijah grew strong, and took for himself fourteen wives, and engendered twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22And the rest of the words of Abijah, and his actions, and his words, are written upon the scroll in the inquiry of Iddo the prophet.