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. [Abijah set: Heb. Abijah bound together]
			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. [to consecrate...: Heb. to fill his hand]
			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.