2 Chronicles 13:18-20

The Voice

¹⁸ The Northern Israelites were defeated because the people of Judah trusted in the Eternal One, the True God of their ancestors. ¹⁹ Abijah pursued the fleeing Jeroboam and captured several Northern cities and their surrounding towns and regions: Bethel (one of the Northern Kingdom’s shrine cities), Jeshanah, and Ephron.

²⁰ Jeroboam was weakened by his battles with Judah, and he never regained his former strength. The Eternal struck him, and Jeroboam died.