14 When Judah turned around, behold, [a]they were attacked both front and rear; so (A)they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. 15 Then the men of Judah raised a war cry, and when the men of Judah raised the war cry, then it was that God [b](B)routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16 When the sons of Israel fled before Judah, (C)God gave them into their hand. 17 Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain. 18 Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time, and the sons of Judah [c]conquered (D)because they trusted in the Lord, the God of their fathers. 19 Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured from him several cities, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages and [d]Ephron with its villages.

Death of Jeroboam

20 Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the (E)Lord struck him and (F)he died.

21 But Abijah became powerful; and took fourteen wives to himself, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 22 Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in (G)the [e]treatise of (H)the prophet Iddo.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:14 Lit the battle was before and behind them
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:15 Lit smote
  3. 2 Chronicles 13:18 Lit were strong
  4. 2 Chronicles 13:19 Another reading is Ephrain
  5. 2 Chronicles 13:22 Heb midrash