16. When the army of Israel ran away from the men of Judah, God handed them over to Judah.
17. Abijah’s army struck Israel so that five hundred thousand of Israel’s best men were killed.
18. So at that time the people of Israel were defeated. And the people of Judah won, because they depended on the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
19. Abijah’s army chased Jeroboam’s army and captured from him the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, and the small villages near them.
20. Jeroboam never became strong again while Abijah was alive. The Lord struck Jeroboam, and he died.
21. But Abijah became strong. He married fourteen women and was the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
22. Everything else Abijah did—what he said and what he did—is recorded in the writings of the prophet Iddo.