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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, even 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, Hear me, thou Jer­oboam, and all Is­rael; 5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Is­rael gave the king­dom over Is­rael to David for ev­er, even 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, is risen up, and hath re­belled against his lord. 7 And there are gath­ered unto him vain 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 ye think to with­stand the king­dom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great mul­ti­tude, and there are with you gold­en calves, which Jer­oboam made you for gods. 9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests af­ter the man­ner of the na­tions 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. 10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not for­sak­en him; and the priests, which min­is­ter unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their busi­ness: 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. 12 And, be­hold, God him­self is with us for our cap­tain, and his priests with sound­ing trum­pets to cry alarm against you. O chil­dren of Is­rael, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fa­thers; for ye shall not pros­per. 13 But Jer­oboam caused an am­bush­ment to come about be­hind them: so they were be­fore Ju­dah, and the am­bush­ment was be­hind them. 14 And when Ju­dah looked back, be­hold, the bat­tle was be­fore and be­hind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sound­ed with the trum­pets. 15 Then 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. 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 God of their fa­thers. 19 And Abi­jah pur­sued af­ter Jer­oboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns there­of, and Je­shanah with the towns there­of, and Ephrain with the towns there­of. 20 Nei­ther did Jer­oboam re­cov­er strength again in the days of Abi­jah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. 21 But Abi­jah waxed mighty, and mar­ried four­teen wives, and be­gat twen­ty and 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.