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.
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. 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, Beth-el 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.
1 anno octavodecimo regis Hieroboam regnavit Abia super Iudam
2 tribus annis regnavit in Hierusalem
nomenque matris eius Michaia filia Urihel de Gabaa
et erat bellum inter Abia et Hieroboam
3 cumque inisset Abia certamen
et haberet bellicosissimos viros et electorum quadringenta milia
Hieroboam instruxit e contra aciem octingenta milia
virorum
qui et ipsi electi erant et ad bella fortissimi
4 stetit igitur Abia super montem Someron qui erat in Ephraim
et ait audi Hieroboam et omnis Israhel
5 num ignoratis quod Dominus Deus Israhel dederit regnum David
super Israhel in sempiternum
ipsi et filiis eius pactum salis
6 et surrexit Hieroboam filius Nabath servus Salomonis filii David
et rebellavit contra dominum suum
7 congregatique sunt ad eum viri vanissimi et filii Belial
et praevaluerunt contra Roboam filium Salomonis
porro Roboam erat rudis et corde pavido nec potuit resistere eis
8 nunc ergo vos dicitis
quod resistere possitis regno Domini quod possidet per filios David
habetisque grandem populi multitudinem
atque vitulos aureos quos fecit vobis Hieroboam in deos
9 et eiecistis sacerdotes Domini filios Aaron atque Levitas
et fecistis vobis sacerdotes sicut omnes populi terrarum
quicumque venerit et initiaverit manum suam
in tauro in bubus et in arietibus septem
fit sacerdos eorum qui non sunt dii
10 noster autem Dominus Deus est quem non relinquimus
sacerdotesque ministrant Domino
de filiis Aaron et Levitae sunt in ordine suo
11 holocausta quoque offerunt Domino per singulos dies mane et vespere
et thymiama iuxta legis praecepta confectum
et proponuntur panes in mensa mundissima
estque apud nos candelabrum aureum et lucernae eius
ut accendantur semper ad vesperam
nos quippe custodimus praecepta Domini Dei nostri
quem vos reliquistis
12 ergo in exercitu nostro dux Deus est
et sacerdotes eius qui clangunt tubis et resonant contra vos
filii Israhel nolite pugnare contra Dominum Deum patrum vestrorum
quia non vobis expedit
13 haec illo loquente Hieroboam retro moliebatur insidias
cumque ex adverso hostium staret
ignorantem Iudam suo ambiebat exercitu
14 respiciensque Iudas vidit instare bellum ex adverso
et post tergum
et clamavit ad Dominum
ac sacerdotes tubis canere coeperunt
15 omnesque viri Iuda vociferati sunt
et ecce illis clamantibus perterruit Deus Hieroboam
et omnem Israhel qui stabat ex adverso Abia et Iuda
16 fugeruntque filii Israhel Iudam
et tradidit eos Deus in manu eorum
17 percussit ergo eos Abia et populus eius plaga magna
et corruerunt vulnerati ex Israhel
quingenta milia virorum fortium
18 humiliatique sunt filii Israhel in tempore illo
et vehementissime confortati filii Iuda
eo quod sperassent in Domino Deo patrum suorum
19 persecutus est autem Abia fugientem Hieroboam
et cepit civitates eius
Bethel et filias eius et Hiesena cum filiabus suis
Ephron quoque et filias eius
20 nec valuit ultra resistere Hieroboam in diebus Abia
quem percussit Dominus et mortuus est
21 igitur Abia confortato imperio suo accepit uxores quattuordecim
procreavitque viginti duos
filios
et sedecim filias
22 reliqua autem sermonum Abia viarumque et operum eius
scripta sunt diligentissime in libro prophetae Addo