1 Kings 15
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1 Now in the eighteenth year
of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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.
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:
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.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and
they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twentieth year
of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of
Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which was right
in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out of
the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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.
14 But the high places were not removed:
nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
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.
16 And there was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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.
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,
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.
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.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof,
that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of
Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
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:
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.
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?
32 And there was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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.
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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