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

¹V osemnajstem letu kralja Jeroboama je Abija zavladal Judi.

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.

²Tri leta je vladal v Jeruzalemu. Materi njegovi pa je bilo ime Mikaja, hči Uriela iz Gibea. In bila je vojna med Abijem in Jeroboamom.

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.

³In Abija je šel na boj z armado hrabrih vojščakov, štiristo tisoč izbranih mož; Jeroboam pa se razvrsti v boj zoper njega z osemsto tisoč izbranimi možmi, hrabrimi junaki.

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

⁴In Abija stopi na goro Zemaraim v Efraimskem gorovju in reče: Poslušajte me, Jeroboam in ves Izrael!

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?

⁵Ne veste li, da je GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, dal kraljestvo nad Izraelom Davidu na vekomaj, njemu in sinom njegovim po solni zavezi?

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

⁶Ali Jeroboam, sin Nebatov, hlapec Salomona, sinu Davidovega, je vstal in se uprl gospodu svojemu.

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.

⁷In zbrali so se pri njem praznoglavi ljudje, otroci Belijalovi, ki so se ohrabrili zoper Roboama, sina Salomonovega, ko je bil Roboam še mlad in plahega srca in se jim ni mogel ubraniti.

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.

⁸Vi pa sedaj mislite, da se morete postaviti zoper GOSPODOVO kraljestvo, ki je v roki sinov Davidovih, ker vas je velika množica in imate pri sebi zlati teleti, ki vam ju je naredil Jeroboam za bogove?

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.

⁹Niste li pregnali duhovnikov GOSPODOVIH, sinov Aronovih in levitov, in niste si li postavili duhovnikov po načinu ljudstev v drugih deželah? Kdorkoli pride, da se posveti z mladim juncem in sedmimi ovni, postane duhovnik tistim, ki niso bogovi!

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:

¹⁰Toda z nami je GOSPOD, naš Bog, ki ga nismo zapustili, in imamo duhovnike, ki strežejo GOSPODU, sinove Aronove in levite v svojem opravilu;

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.

¹¹ti zažigajo GOSPODU vsako jutro in vsak večer žgalne daritve in sladkodišeče kadilo in skrbe za razvrstitev kruhov na čisti mizi ter za zlati svečnik ž njegovimi svetilnicami, da se prižigajo vsak večer; kajti mi opravljamo stražo GOSPODA, svojega Boga, vi pa ste ga zapustili.

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.”

¹²In glejte, Bog je z nami, nam na čelu, in duhovniki njegovi z donečimi trobentami, da bučno trobentajo zoper vas. O Izraelovi otroci, ne bojujte se zoper GOSPODA, svojih očetov Boga, ker ne boste imeli sreče!

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

¹³Ali Jeroboam je velel zasedi, naj po ovinkih pridejo nadnje odzadaj; tako je stal on pred Judovimi, in zaseda je bila za njimi.

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

¹⁴In ko so se Judovi ozrli, glej, boj jim je bil spredaj in zadaj! In vpijejo h GOSPODU, in duhovniki so močno trobili na doneče trobente.

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.

¹⁵In možje Judovi zaženo bojni krik, in ko so Judovi kričali, je Bog porazil Jeroboama in vsega Izraela pred Abijem in Judovimi.

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

¹⁶In sinovi Izraelovi zbeže pred Judovimi, in Bog je dal nje v njih roke.

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

¹⁷In Abija in ljudstvo njegovo jim je prizadelo velik poraz, da je padlo ubitih v Izraelu petsto tisoč izbranih mož.

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.

¹⁸Tako so bili tisti čas Izraelovi sinovi ponižani, a sinovi Judovi so se ojačili, ker so se opirali na GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih.

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

¹⁹In podil je Abija bežečega Jeroboama in mu je vzel mesta: Betel in njemu podložne vasi, Ješano in njej podložne vasi ter Efron in njegove vasi.

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

²⁰Tudi si ni opomogel Jeroboam nič več v dnevih Abijevih; in GOSPOD ga je udaril, da je umrl.

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

²¹A Abija je prihajal močnejši in si je vzel štirinajst žen ter je rodil dvaiindvajset sinov in šestnajst hčera.Kar je pa več praviti o Abiju, njegovi poti in njegovi govori so zapisani v razlagi Ida proroka.

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

²²Kar je pa več praviti o Abiju, njegovi poti in njegovi govori so zapisani v razlagi Ida proroka.