^{12 Ref} And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

^{13 Ref} But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

^{14 Ref} And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried unto Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

^{15 Ref} 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.

^{16 Ref} And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

^{17 Ref} And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.