He reigned three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel, from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.
And the acts of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer as to genealogy? And the wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam lasted all the days.
And Abijah joined the battle with an army of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men. And Jeroboam had set the battle in order with him, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty men of strength.
and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjathjearim; fourteen villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by their families.
And, behold, an old man, a sojourner, came from his work from the field in the evening. And the man was from the hills of Ephraim; and he was sojourning in Gibeah. But the men of the place were sons of Benjamin.