14:013:017 And Abijah and his people slew them with
a great slaughter: so
there
fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen
men.
14:013:018 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.
14:013:019 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and
took cities from him,
Bethel
with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof,
and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
14:013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again
in the days of
Abijah:
and the lord struck him, and he died.
14:013:021 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen
wives, and begat
twenty
and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
14:013:022 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and
his ways, and his
sayings,
are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
14:014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the
city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
In his
days
the land was quiet ten years.
14:014:002 And Asa did that which was good and right
in the eyes of the
lord
his God:
14:014:003 For he took away the altars of the strange
gods, and the high
places,
and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
14:014:004 And commanded Judah to seek the lord
God of their fathers, and
to
do the law and the commandment.
14:014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities
of Judah the high
places
and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before
him.
14:014:006 And he built fenced cities in Judah:
for the land had rest,
and
he had no war in those years; because the lord
had given
him
rest.
14:014:007 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build
these cities, and
make
about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while
the
land
is yet before us; because we have sought the lord
our
God,
we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every
side.
So they built and prospered.
14:014:008 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets
and spears, out
of
Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin,
that
bare
shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore
thousand:
all these were mighty men of valour.
14:014:009 And there came out against them Zerah the
Ethiopian with an
host
of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots;
and
came
unto Mareshah.
14:014:010 Then Asa went out against him, and they
set the battle in
array
in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.


