¹Now in the eighteenth year of king Yarov’am [the people will contend] began Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] to reign over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] .

²He reigned three years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] . His mother’s name also [was] Mikhayah [who is like God?] the daughter of Uri’el [God is my light] of Giv’ah [Hill] . And there was war between Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and Yarov’am [the people will contend] .

³And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] set the battle in array (to put on; to clothe) with an army of valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men: Yarov’am [the people will contend] also set the battle in array (to put on; to clothe) against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.

⁴And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] stood up upon mount Tz’marayim [Double Fleece of Wool] , which [is] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] , and said, Hear me, youi Yarov’am [the people will contend] , and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ;

⁵Ought you2f not to know that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave the kingdom over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to David [beloved] forever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

⁶Yet Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect] , the servant of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the son of David [beloved] , is risen up, and has rebelled against his lord.

⁷And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing] , and have strengthened themselves against Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] , when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

⁸And now you2f think that is to withstand the kingdom of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the hand of the sons of David [beloved] ; and you2f [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Yarov’am [the people will contend] made you for gods.

⁹Have you2f not cast out the priests of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High] , and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] , and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever comes to consecrate (treat as set apart or separate unto God) himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

¹⁰But as for us, the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , [are] the sons of Aharon [Bright, Very High] , and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] [wait] upon [their] business:

¹¹And they burn unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) 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 -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ; but you2f have forsaken him.

¹²And, behold, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , fight you2f not against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of your fathers; for you2f shall not prosper.

¹³But Yarov’am [the people will contend] caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and the ambush [was] behind them.

¹⁴And when Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] looked back, behold, the battle [was] before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵Then the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] gave a shout: and as the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shouted, it came to pass, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] struck Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] before Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] .

¹⁶And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] fled before Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] : and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Thus the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were brought under at that time, and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of their fathers.

¹⁹And Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] pursued after Yarov’am [the people will contend] , and took cities from him, Beit-El [House of God] with the towns thereof, and Y’shanah [storage] with the towns thereof, and ‘Efrayin [fawn-like] with the towns thereof.

²⁰Neither did Yarov’am [the people will contend] recover strength again in the days of Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] : and the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck him, and he died.

²¹But Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat (to be father of; be ancestor of) twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

²²And the rest of the acts of Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] , and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet ‘Iddo [His witness] .