11. and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.
12. Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”
13. But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
14. When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
15. Then the men of Judah gave a shout. As the men of Judah shouted, God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16. The children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.
17. Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
18. Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
19. Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
20. Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.
21. But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
22. The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways, and his sayings are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.