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1In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.
2He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah.[#13:2 A variant of Ma'akah; #13:2 In 1 Kings 15:2, 10 and 2 Chronicles 11:20, Ma'akah is called the daughter of Absalom in the Hebrew text, but evidence indicates that the term means granddaughter in those verses. If Uriel is her father, perhaps it was her mother who was Absalom's daughter.]
There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
3Abijah got ready for battle with an army of four hundred thousand strong warriors, each man specially chosen. Jeroboam lined up for battle against him with eight hundred thousand strong warriors, each man specially chosen.[#13:3 Or top-notch]
4Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said this to them:
13However, Jeroboam had set up an ambush to come around them from behind. So the main enemy forces were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
14When Judah turned and saw that the battle line was in front of them and behind them, they cried out to the Lord while the priests kept blowing the trumpets.
15The men of Judah raised a battle cry. When they raised the battle cry, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
16The men of Israel fled from Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
17Abijah and his people inflicted very heavy casualties on them. Five hundred thousand specially chosen men of Israel fell in battle.
18So the men of Israel were subdued at that time. The men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord , the God of their fathers.
19Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took these cities from him: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.
20Jeroboam never recovered his power during the days of Abijah. Then the Lord struck Jeroboam, and he died.
21But Abijah grew strong. He took for himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his words, are written in the notes of the prophet Iddo.