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Chapter 15 |
| 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.
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| 8 | And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
