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Now in the
eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
reigned Abijam over Judah.
02 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his
mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of
Abishalom.
03 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.
04 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:
05 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.
06 And there was war between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam all the days of his life.
07 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.
08 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they
buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son
reigned in his stead.
09 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,
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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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