1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
1亞比雅作猶大王（王上15:1~6）耶羅波安王第十八年，亞比雅登基作猶大王。
2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2他在耶路撒冷作王三年；他母親名叫米該亞，是基比亞人烏列的女兒。亞比雅和耶羅波安常有爭戰。
3And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor.
3南北之戰有一次，亞比雅帶著精兵四十萬，都是英勇的戰士，準備開戰；耶羅波安也帶著八十萬精兵，都是英勇的戰士，列陣對抗亞比雅。
4And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
4亞比雅起來站在以法蓮山地中的洗瑪臉山上，說：“耶羅波安和以色列眾民哪，你們要聽我的話。
5Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
5耶和華以色列的 神曾經立了鹽約，要把以色列國永遠賜給大衛和他的子孫，你們不知道嗎？
6Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
6可是大衛的兒子所羅門的僕人，尼八的兒子耶羅波安，卻起來背叛了他的主。
7And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
7有些無賴匪徒結集跟從他，欺負所羅門的兒子羅波安；那時羅波安還年幼，心裡驚怯，所以不能抵擋他們。
8And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
8現在你們有意要反抗大衛子孫手下的耶和華的國；你們人數眾多，你們那裡也有金牛犢，就是耶羅波安為你們所做，當作神的。
9Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
9你們不是驅逐了耶和華的祭司，亞倫的子孫和利未人嗎？你們不是像世上萬民為自己立祭司嗎？無論甚麼人牽來一頭公牛犢和七隻公綿羊，把自己分別為聖，就可以作那本不是神的祭司。
10But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
10至於我們，耶和華是我們的 神，我們並沒有離棄他；我們有事奉耶和華的祭司，都是亞倫的子孫，並且有利未人負責工作。
11And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
11他們每日早晚向耶和華獻燔祭，焚燒芬芳的香；在清潔的桌子上擺上陳設餅；每天晚上燃點金燈臺的燈盞；我們謹守耶和華我們的 神的吩咐，你們卻離棄了他。
12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
12“看哪， 神和我們同在，率領我們；他的祭司拿著號筒向你們大聲吹響。以色列人哪，你們不可和耶和華你們列祖的 神作戰，因為你們必不能得勝。”
13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
13猶大人戰勝以色列人耶羅波安卻派伏兵繞到猶大人的背後。這樣，猶大人前面有以色列人，他們背後也有伏兵。
14And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
14猶大人轉身，看見自己前後受敵，就呼求耶和華，祭司也都吹號。
15Then 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.
15於是猶大人大聲吶喊；猶大人大聲吶喊的時候， 神就在亞比雅和猶大人面前，使耶羅波安和以色列眾人大敗而逃。
16And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
16以色列人在猶大人面前逃跑； 神把他們交在猶大人手裡。
17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
17亞比雅和他的人民大大地擊殺以色列人；以色列人中倒斃的精兵共有五十萬。
18Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
18那時，以色列人被擊敗了，猶大人獲得勝利，因為他們倚靠耶和華他們列祖的 神。
19And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
19亞比雅追趕耶羅波安，奪取了他的幾座城，就是伯特利和屬於伯特利的鄉鎮，耶沙拿和屬於耶沙拿的鄉鎮，以法拉音和屬於以法拉音的鄉鎮。
20Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
20亞比雅在世的日子，耶羅波安不再強盛。耶和華擊打他，他就死了。
21But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
21亞比雅卻不斷強盛起來，娶了十四個妻妾，生了二十二個兒子，十六個女兒。
22And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
22亞比雅其餘的事蹟和他的言行，都記在易多先知的傳記上。