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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 15 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Kings 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/14.htm" title="1 Kings 14">◄</a> 1 Kings 15 <a href="../1_kings/16.htm" title="1 Kings 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_kings/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Abijam Reigns in Judah</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God, as the heart of David his father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Nevertheless, for David’s sake the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because David did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.</p> <p class="heading">Asa Reigns in Judah</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, as David his father had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all his days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Let there be a covenant<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or treaty; twice in this verse">a</a></sup></span> between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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 place.</p> <p class="heading">Nadab Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.</p> <p class="heading">Baasha Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>treaty</i>; twice in this verse<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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