1KI-15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of

Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

1KI-15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1KI-15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he

had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD

his God, as the heart of David his father.

1KI-15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give

him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to

establish Jerusalem:

1KI-15:5 Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of

the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he

commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter

of Uriah the Hittite.

1KI-15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the

days of his life.

1KI-15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did,

 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1KI-15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him

in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel

reigned Asa over Judah.

1KI-15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And

his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1KI-15:11 And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the

LORD, as [did] David his father.

1KI-15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and

removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1KI-15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from

[being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa

destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

1KI-15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless

Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

1KI-15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had

dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the

house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

1KI-15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of

Israel all their days.

1KI-15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and

built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in

to Asa king of Judah.

1KI-15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were]

left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the

treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand

of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of

Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at

Damascus, saying,

1KI-15:19 [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between

my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a

present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with

Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1KI-15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the

captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel,

and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth,

with all the land of Naphtali.

1KI-15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [thereof], that

he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

1KI-15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah;

 none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah,

and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king

Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

1KI-15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might,

and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they

not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his

feet.

1KI-15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with

his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his

son reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over

Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over

Israel two years.

1KI-15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked

in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made

Israel to sin.

1KI-15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,

 conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which

[belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid

siege to Gibbethon.

1KI-15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha

slay him, and reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote

all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that

breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying

of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

1KI-15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and

which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he

provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

1KI-15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,

 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel?

1KI-15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of

Israel all their days.

1KI-15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha

the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and

four years.

1KI-15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked

in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel

to sin.

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