¹Pada tahun kedelapan belas pemerintahan Raja Yerobeam atas Israel, Abia menjadi raja Yehuda,

¹In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

²dan memerintah tiga tahun lamanya di Yerusalem. Ibunya ialah Mikhaya anak Uriel dari kota Gibea. Kemudian pecahlah perang antara Abia dan Yerobeam.

²He reigned three years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

³Abia mengerahkan 400.000 prajurit, sedangkan Yerobeam mengerahkan 800.000 prajurit.

³Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

⁴Kedua pasukan itu berhadap-hadapan di daerah pegunungan Efraim. Abia naik ke atas Gunung Zemaraim lalu berseru kepada Yerobeam dan orang Israel, "Dengar!

⁴Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

⁵Kamu tahu bahwa TUHAN, Allah Israel, telah mengikat janji dengan Daud bahwa ia dan keturunannya akan memerintah Israel untuk selama-lamanya. Janji itu tidak dapat dibatalkan.

⁵Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

⁶Meskipun begitu, Yerobeam anak Nebat itu memberontak terhadap Salomo, rajanya.

⁶Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

⁷Ia mengumpulkan segerombolan orang-orang kurang ajar dan memaksakan kehendak mereka kepada Rehabeam putra Salomo, yang pada waktu itu terlalu muda dan tak berpengalaman untuk menentang.

⁷There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

⁸Sekarang kamu menyangka dapat melawan kekuasaan yang diberikan TUHAN kepada keturunan Daud, karena pasukanmu besar dan kamu mempunyai sapi-sapi emas yang oleh Yerobeam dijadikan dewamu.

⁸“Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.

⁹Bukankah imam-imam TUHAN keturunan Harun dan orang-orang Lewi telah kamu usir semuanya? Sebagai gantinya siapa saja yang ingin menjadi imam, asal dia membawa seekor sapi atau tujuh ekor domba, kamu jadikan imam untuk yang bukan Allah, sebab memang begitulah cara bangsa-bangsa lain mengangkat imam mereka. Tetapi kami tidak berbuat seperti itu.

⁹Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of other lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

¹⁰Kami tetap mengabdi kepada TUHAN Allah kami dan tidak meninggalkan Dia. Imam-imam kami tetap keturunan Harun, dan orang-orang Lewi tetap membantu mereka.

¹⁰“But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:

¹¹Setiap pagi dan sore mereka membakar dupa dan mempersembahkan kurban bakaran untuk TUHAN, serta menyediakan roti sajian. Setiap malam mereka menyalakan pelita-pelita pada kaki pelita emas. Kami tetap mentaati perintah-perintah TUHAN, tetapi kamu sudah meninggalkan Dia.

¹¹and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.

¹²Pemimpin kami adalah Allah sendiri dan para imam-Nya ada di sini. Mereka sudah siap untuk meniup trompet sebagai tanda bagi kami untuk menyerang kamu. Hai orang Israel, janganlah melawan TUHAN, Allah leluhurmu! Kamu takkan bisa menang!"

¹²Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.”

¹³Sementara itu Yerobeam mengirim sebagian dari pasukannya untuk menghadang pasukan Yehuda dari belakang, sedangkan sebagian lagi menghadapi mereka dari depan.

¹³But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

¹⁴Ketika pasukan Yehuda melihat bahwa mereka dikepung, mereka berteriak minta tolong kepada TUHAN. Para imam meniup trompet,

¹⁴When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁵lalu pasukan Yehuda menyerukan pekik perang dan maju menyerang, dipimpin oleh Abia. Sementara mereka berseru, Allah mengalahkan Yerobeam dan pasukan Israel

¹⁵Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

¹⁶sehingga mereka lari. Allah membuat orang Yehuda menang atas mereka.

¹⁶The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

¹⁷Besarlah kekalahan yang didatangkan Abia dan pasukannya ke atas orang Israel; 500.000 prajurit mereka yang terbaik tewas.

¹⁷Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁸Orang Yehuda menang, karena mereka mengandalkan TUHAN, Allah leluhur mereka.

¹⁸Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

¹⁹Ketika Abia mengejar pasukan Yerobeam, ia merebut beberapa kota dengan desa-desa di sekitarnya. Kota-kota itu ialah Betel, Yesana dan Efron.

¹⁹Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns.

²⁰Selama pemerintahan Abia, Yerobeam tidak dapat memulihkan kekuasaannya. Akhirnya ia dibunuh oleh TUHAN.

²⁰Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.

²¹Sebaliknya, Abia semakin berkuasa. Ia mempunyai 14 orang istri, 22 anak laki-laki dan 16 anak perempuan.

²¹But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

²²Kisah lainnya mengenai Abia, dan mengenai semua perkataan dan perbuatannya telah dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Nabi Ido.

²²The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.