2 Chronicles 13:14-22 ▼

14 When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets.

15 Then the army of Judah sounded a war cry, and God routed Jeroboam and the entire army of Israel in front of Abijah and Judah.

16 When the descendants of Israel ran away from the army of Judah, God handed them over to the army of Judah.

17 Abijah and his army defeated them in a tremendous slaughter that resulted in 500,000 special forces from Israel being slain.

18 And so the descendants of Israel were defeated at that time. The descendants of Judah were victorious because they trusted in the LORD God of their ancestors.

19 After this Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron and its villages.

20 Jeroboam never recovered his strength for the rest of Abijah's life. The LORD struck Jeroboam, and he died,

21 but Abijah continued to grow more powerful. He took fourteen wives for himself and fathered 22 sons and sixteen daughters.

22 The rest of Abijah's accomplishments, his lifestyle and his memoirs are recorded in the Midrash of the Prophet Iddo.