Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
第2段
中文
在耶路撒冷作王三年。他母亲名叫米该亚（又作玛迦），是基比亚人乌列的女儿。亚比雅常与耶罗波安争战。
英文
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
第3段
中文
有一次亚比雅率领挑选的兵四十万摆阵，都是勇敢的战士。耶罗波安也挑选大能的勇士八十万，对亚比雅摆阵。
英文
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
第4段
中文
亚比雅站在以法莲山地中的洗玛脸山上，说，耶罗波安和以色列众人哪，要听我说。
英文
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
第5段
中文
耶和华以色列的神曾立盐约（盐即不废坏的意思），将以色列国永远赐给大卫和他的子孙，你们不知道吗。
英文
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
第6段
中文
无奈大卫儿子所罗门的臣仆，尼八儿子耶罗波安起来背叛他的主人。
英文
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
第7段
中文
有些无赖的匪徒聚集跟从他，逞强攻击所罗门的儿子罗波安。那时罗波安还幼弱，不能抵挡他们。
英文
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread 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 our God; but ye have forsaken him.
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
第13段
中文
耶罗波安却在犹大人的后头设伏兵。这样，以色列人在犹大人的前头，伏兵在犹大人的后头。
英文
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
第14段
中文
犹大人回头观看，见前后都有敌兵，就呼求耶和华，祭司也吹号。
英文
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
第15段
中文
于是犹大人呐喊。犹大人呐喊的时候，神就使耶罗波安和以色列众人败在亚比雅与犹大人面前。
英文
Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
第16段
中文
以色列人在犹大人面前逃跑，神将他们交在犹大人手里。
英文
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
第17段
中文
亚比雅和他的军兵大大杀戮以色列人，以色列人仆倒死亡的精兵有五十万。
英文
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
第18段
中文
那时，以色列人被制伏了，犹大人得胜，是因倚靠耶和华他们列祖的神。
英文
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.
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
第20段
中文
亚比雅在世的时候，耶罗波安不能再强盛。耶和华攻击他，他就死了。
英文
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
第21段
中文
亚比雅却渐渐强盛，娶妻妾十四个，生了二十二个儿子，十六个女儿。
英文
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
第22段
中文
亚比雅其馀的事和他的言行都写在先知易多的传上。
英文
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.