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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>1 Kings 15 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Abijam Reigns over Judah: Idolatry and War</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> his God, like the heart of his father David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Nevertheless for David’s sake the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>because David did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The war begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued all the days of his life. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. Then his son Asa succeeded him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Asa Reigns over Judah</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>In the twentieth year of King Jeroboam of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Asa did what was right in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, as his father David had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>He put away the male temple prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He also removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah; Asa cut down her image and burned it at the Wadi Kidron. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was true to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> all his days. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>He brought into the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts—silver, gold, and utensils.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Alliance with Aram against Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>King Baasha of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to King Asa of Judah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and the treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into the hands of his servants. King Asa sent them to King Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion of Aram, who resided in Damascus, saying, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>“Let there be an alliance between me and you, like that between my father and your father: I am sending you a present of silver and gold; go, break your alliance with King Baasha of Israel, so that he may withdraw from me.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and lived in Tirzah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt: they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his power, all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Then Asa slept with his ancestors, and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his father David; his son Jehoshaphat succeeded him.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Nadab Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Nadab son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of King Asa of Judah; he reigned over Israel two years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, walking in the way of his ancestor and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Baasha 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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>So Baasha killed Nadab<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9278a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> in the third year of King Asa of Judah, and succeeded him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>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 style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>because of the sins of Jeroboam that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit, and because of the anger to which he provoked the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Second Dynasty: Baasha Reigns over Israel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>In the third year of King Asa of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah; he reigned twenty-four years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>He did what was evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, walking in the way of Jeroboam and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Kings 15:28">1 Kings 15:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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