2 Chronicles 13

2He reigned three years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Maacha, a daughter of Uriel of Gabaon. Now there was a war between Abia and Jeroboam.

3And when Abia had drawn up in array his army consisting of forty thousand fighting men, and Jeroboam had drawn up in array for battle against him with eighty thousand fighting men;

4Abia rose up from mount Somoron which is on mount Ephraim and said: Hearken Jeroboam and all Israel!

5Ought you not to know that the Lord God, the God of Israel, gave the office of king over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and fled from his Lord,

7and there were gathered to him wicked factious men, so that he rose up against Roboam the son of Solomon, when he was young and faint-hearted and unable to withstand him;

8and now you think of rising up against the kingdom of the Lord administered by the sons of David. You indeed are a great multitude, and you have with you the calves of gold which Jeroboam hath made for you to be your gods.

9Have you not expelled the priests of the Lord, the children of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests of the people of every land? Whoever came to consecrate himself with a young bull from the herd, and seven rams, was made a priest to a thing which is no God.

11They burn to the Lord, every morning and evening, the whole burnt offering with the sacrifice of compound incense. We have the presence loaves set in order on the pure table, and the golden candlestick with the lamps for light, to be lighted every evening; for we keep the watches of the Lord, the God of our fathers, though you have forsaken Him.

12Now behold with us, at our head, is the Lord and His priests, and the trumpets of alarm to sound a charge against you. O sons of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers, for it will not prosper with you.

14And when Juda looked back behold the battle was both in front and in the rear. Thereupon they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded the trumpets, and the men of Juda shouted.

15And when the men of Juda shouted, the Lord smote Jeroboam and Israel before Abia and Juda.

16And the Israelites fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hands,

17so that Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter, and there fell of Israel, slain, fifty thousand warriors.

19And Abia continued the pursuit after Jeroboam and took from him the following cities, Baithel with the villages thereof, and Jesuna with the villages thereof, and Ephron with the villages thereof.

20And Jeroboam did not again recover strength all the days of Abia. And the Lord smote him and he died;

21but Abia became mighty. Having taken fourteen wives he had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.