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: (13:10)

And they burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread 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 (13:11)

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 (13:12)

But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them (13:13)

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 (13:14)

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 (13:15)

And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand (13:16)

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men (13:17)

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 (13:18)

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 (13:19)

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died (13:20)

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters (13:21)

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo (13:22)

Get Next Chapter