| 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: |
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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. |
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12 | And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
