and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 013:019 Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it. 013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yahweh struck him, and he died. 013:021 But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters. 013:022 The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo. 014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years. 014:002 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: 014:003 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, 014:004 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 014:006 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest. 014:007 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. 014:008 Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor. 014:009 There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah. 014:010 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. 014:011 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man prevail against you. 014:012 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. 014:013 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.