11. They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
12. Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, for you will not win!”
13. Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind. The main army was in front of the Judahite army; the ambushers were behind it.
14. The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,
15. and the men of Judah gave the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16. The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.
17. Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
18. That day the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord God of their ancestors.
19. Abijah chased Jeroboam; he seized from him these cities: Bethel and its surrounding towns, Jeshanah and its surrounding towns, and Ephron and its surrounding towns.
20. Jeroboam did not regain power during the reign of Abijah. The Lord struck him down and he died.
21. Abijah’s power grew; he had fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22. The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including his deeds and sayings, are recorded in the writings of the prophet Iddo.