14:013:016 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. 14:013:017 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. 14:013:018 Thus 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. 14:013:019 And 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. 14:013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died. 14:013:021 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. 14:013:022 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 14:014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. 14:014:002 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: 14:014:003 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 14:014:004 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 14:014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 14:014:006 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest. 14:014:007 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. 14:014:008 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour. 14:014:009 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. 14:014:010 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.