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There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.</p> <a name="9" id="9"></a><p class="hdg">Asa's Good Reign in Judah<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/14.htm">2 Chronicles 14:1-15</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.</p> <a name="16" id="16"></a><p class="hdg">War between Asa and Baasha<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/16.htm">2 Chronicles 16:1-6</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.</p> <a name="23" id="23"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_chronicles/17.htm">2 Chronicles 17:1-19</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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 place.</p> <p class="hdg">Nadab's Wicked Reign in Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.</p> <p class="hdg">Baasha's Wicked Reign in Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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