Dual Panel1Now in the eighteenth <08083> <06240> year <08141> of king <04428> Jeroboam <03379> began Abijah <029> to reign <04427> (8799) over Judah <03063>_.
2He reigned <04427> (8804) three <07969> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>_. His mother's <0517> name <08034> also [was] Michaiah <04322> the daughter <01323> of Uriel <0222> of Gibeah <01390>_. And there was war <04421> between Abijah <029> and Jeroboam <03379>_.
3And Abijah <029> set <0631> (0) the battle <04421> in array <0631> (8799) with an army <02428> of valiant men <01368> of war <04421>_, [even] four <0702> hundred <03967> thousand <0505> chosen <0977> (8803) men <0376>_: Jeroboam <03379> also set the battle <04421> in array <06186> (8804) against him with eight <08083> hundred <03967> thousand <0505> chosen <0977> (8803) men <0376>_, [being] mighty men <01368> of valour <02428>_. {Abijah set: Heb. Abijah bound together}
4And Abijah <029> stood up <06965> (8799) upon mount <02022> Zemaraim <06787>_, which [is] in mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>_, and said <0559> (8799)_, Hear <08085> (8798) me, thou Jeroboam <03379>_, and all Israel <03478>_;
5Ought ye not to know <03045> (8800) that the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478> gave <05414> (8804) the kingdom <04467> over Israel <03478> to David <01732> for ever <05769>_, [even] to him and to his sons <01121> by a covenant <01285> of salt <04417>_?
6Yet Jeroboam <03379> the son <01121> of Nebat <05028>_, the servant <05650> of Solomon <08010> the son <01121> of David <01732>_, is risen up <06965> (8799)_, and hath rebelled <04775> (8799) against his lord <0113>_.
7And there are gathered <06908> (8735) unto him vain <07386> men <0582>_, the children <01121> of Belial <01100>_, and have strengthened <0553> (8691) themselves against Rehoboam <07346> the son <01121> of Solomon <08010>_, when Rehoboam <07346> was young <05288> and tenderhearted <07390> <03824>_, and could not withstand <02388> (8694) them <06440>_.
8And now ye think <0559> (8802) to withstand <02388> (8692) the kingdom <06440> <04467> of the LORD <03068> in the hand <03027> of the sons <01121> of David <01732>_; and ye [be] a great <07227> multitude <01995>_, and [there are] with you golden <02091> calves <05695>_, which Jeroboam <03379> made <06213> (8804) you for gods <0430>_.
9Have ye not cast out <05080> (8689) the priests <03548> of the LORD <03068>_, the sons <01121> of Aaron <0175>_, and the Levites <03881>_, and have made <06213> (8799) you priests <03548> after the manner of the nations <05971> of [other] lands <0776>_? so that whosoever cometh <0935> (8802) to consecrate <04390> (8763) <03027> himself with a young <01121> <01241> bullock <06499> and seven <07651> rams <0352>_, [the same] may be a priest <03548> of [them that are] no <03808> gods <0430>_. {to consecrate...: Heb. to fill his hand}
10But as for us, the LORD <03068> [is] our God <0430>_, and we have not forsaken <05800> (8804) him; and the priests <03548>_, which minister <08334> (8764) unto the LORD <03068>_, [are] the sons <01121> of Aaron <0175>_, and the Levites <03881> [wait] upon [their] business <04399>_:
11And they burn <06999> (8688) unto the LORD <03068> every morning <01242> and every evening <06153> burnt sacrifices <05930> and sweet <05561> incense <07004>_: the shewbread <03899> <04635> also [set they in order] upon the pure <02889> table <07979>_; and the candlestick <04501> of gold <02091> with the lamps <05216> thereof, to burn <01197> (8763) every evening <06153>_: for we keep <08104> (8802) the charge <04931> of the LORD <03068> our God <0430>_; but ye have forsaken <05800> (8804) him.
12And, behold, God <0430> himself [is] with us for [our] captain <07218>_, and his priests <03548> with sounding <08643> trumpets <02689> to cry alarm <07321> (8687) against you. O children <01121> of Israel <03478>_, fight <03898> (8735) ye not against the LORD <03068> God <0430> of your fathers <01>_; for ye shall not prosper <06743> (8686)_.
13But Jeroboam <03379> caused an ambushment <03993> to come <0935> (8800) about <05437> (8689) behind <0310> them: so they were before <06440> Judah <03063>_, and the ambushment <03993> [was] behind <0310> them.
14And when Judah <03063> looked back <06437> (8799)_, behold, the battle <04421> [was] before <06440> and behind <0268>_: and they cried <06817> (8799) unto the LORD <03068>_, and the priests <03548> sounded <02690> (8688) (8675) <02690> (8764) with the trumpets <02689>_.
15Then the men <0376> of Judah <03063> gave a shout <07321> (8686)_: and as the men <0376> of Judah <03063> shouted <07321> (8687)_, it came to pass, that God <0430> smote <05062> (8804) Jeroboam <03379> and all Israel <03478> before <06440> Abijah <029> and Judah <03063>_.
16And the children <01121> of Israel <03478> fled <05127> (8799) before <06440> Judah <03063>_: and God <0430> delivered <05414> (8799) them into their hand <03027>_.
17And Abijah <029> and his people <05971> slew <05221> (8686) them with a great <07227> slaughter <04347>_: so there fell down <05307> (8799) slain <02491> of Israel <03478> five <02568> hundred <03967> thousand <0505> chosen <0977> (8803) men <0376>_.
18Thus the children <01121> of Israel <03478> were brought <03665> (8735) under at that time <06256>_, and the children <01121> of Judah <03063> prevailed <0553> (8799)_, because they relied <08172> (8738) upon the LORD <03068> God <0430> of their fathers <01>_.
19And Abijah <029> pursued <07291> (8799) after <0310> Jeroboam <03379>_, and took <03920> (8799) cities <05892> from him, Bethel <01008> with the towns <01323> thereof, and Jeshanah <03466> with the towns <01323> thereof, and Ephrain <06085> with the towns <01323> thereof.
20Neither did Jeroboam <03379> recover <06113> (8804) strength <03581> again in the days <03117> of Abijah <029>_: and the LORD <03068> struck <05062> (8799) him, and he died <04191> (8799)_.
21But Abijah <029> waxed mighty <02388> (8691)_, and married <05375> (8799) fourteen <0702> <06240> wives <0802>_, and begat <03205> (8686) twenty <06242> and two <08147> sons <01121>_, and sixteen <08337> <06240> daughters <01323>_.
22And the rest <03499> of the acts <01697> of Abijah <029>_, and his ways <01870>_, and his sayings <01697>_, [are] written <03789> (8803) in the story <04097> of the prophet <05030> Iddo <05714>_.