18. And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.
19. And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her daughters.
20. And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
21. But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.
22. And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.