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But Jeroboam had put some of his men to make a surprise attack on them from the back, so some were facing Judah and others were stationed secretly at their back.
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And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.
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And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
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And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.
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And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.
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So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.
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And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.
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But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
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And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are recorded in the account of the prophet Iddo.