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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 Literal Standard Version</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="../">LSV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/15-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam has reigned over Judah; <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>he has reigned three years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Maachah daughter of Abishalom; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and he walks in all the sins of his father that he did before him, and his heart has not been perfect with his God YHWH, as the heart of his father David; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but for David’s sake his God YHWH has given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>in that David did that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all [the] days of his life—except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and there has been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the rest of the matters of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there has been war between Abijam and Jeroboam;<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and Abijam lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the City of David, and his son Asa reigns in his stead.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa has reigned over Judah, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he has reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Maachah daughter of Abishalom. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Asa does that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH, like his father David, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and removes the whoremongers out of the land, and turns aside all the idols that his fathers made; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and also his mother Maachah—he turns her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for an Asherah, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and burns [it] by the Brook of Kidron; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but the high places have not been removed; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect with YHWH [for] all his days, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of YHWH: silver, and gold, and vessels.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And there has been war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel [for] all their days, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and Baasha king of Israel goes up against Judah, and builds Ramah, not to permit anyone going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Asa takes all the silver and the gold that are left in the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the house of the king, and gives them into the hand of his servants, and King Asa sends them to Ben-Hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“A covenant [is] between me and you, between my father and your father; behold, I have sent a reward of silver and gold to you; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he goes up from off me.” <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Ben-Hadad listens to King Asa, and sends the heads of the forces that he has against cities of Israel, and strikes Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and it comes to pass at Baasha’s hearing, that he ceases from building Ramah, and dwells in Tirzah. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And King Asa has summoned all Judah—there is none exempt—and they lift up the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha has built, and King Asa builds with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the rest of all the matters of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet; <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and Asa lies with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigns in his stead.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Nadab son of Jeroboam has reigned over Israel, in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigns over Israel two years, <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and does evil in the eyes of YHWH, and goes in the way of his father, and in his sin that he made Israel to sin. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspires against him, and Baasha strikes him in Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines—and Nadab and all Israel are laying siege against Gibbethon—<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>indeed, Baasha puts him to death in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigns in his stead. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, at his reigning, he has struck the whole house of Jeroboam, he has not left any breathing to Jeroboam until his destroying him, according to the word of YHWH, that He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilonite, <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked YHWH, God of Israel, to anger.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the rest of the matters of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And there has been war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel [for] all their days.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah has reigned over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty-four years, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, and walks in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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