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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_kings/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Abijam Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Abijam<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He committed the same sins as his father before him, and he was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But for David’s sake, the LORD his God allowed his descendants to continue ruling, shining like a lamp, and he gave Abijam a son to rule after him in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For David had done what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight and had obeyed the LORD’s commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> throughout Abijam’s reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The rest of the events in Abijam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in <span class="it">The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.</span> There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king.</p><p class="hdg">Asa Rules in Judah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Asa began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Asa did what was pleasing in the LORD’s sight, as his ancestor David had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> his ancestors had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful to the LORD throughout his life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He brought into the Temple of the LORD the silver and gold and the various items that he and his father had dedicated.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa’s territory in Judah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Asa responded by removing all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace. He sent it with some of his officials to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:</p><p class="b"/><p class="pmo"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Let there be a treaty<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa’s request and sent the commanders of his army to attack the towns of Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, and all the land of Naphtali. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>As soon as Baasha of Israel heard what was happening, he abandoned his project of fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then King Asa sent an order throughout Judah, requiring that everyone, without exception, help to carry away the building stones and timbers that Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. Asa used these materials to fortify the town of Geba in Benjamin and the town of Mizpah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The rest of the events in Asa’s reign—the extent of his power, everything he did, and the names of the cities he built—are recorded in <span class="it">The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.</span> In his old age his feet became diseased. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Asa died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.</p><p class="reg">Then Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became the next king.</p><p class="hdg">Nadab Rules in Israel</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Nadab son of Jeroboam began to rule over Israel in the second year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Israel two years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But he did what was evil in the LORD’s sight and followed the example of his father, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israelite army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of King Asa’s reign in Judah, and he became the next king of Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He immediately slaughtered all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the LORD had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>This was done because Jeroboam had provoked the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by the sins he had committed and the sins he had led Israel to commit.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The rest of the events in Nadab’s reign and everything he did are recorded in <span class="it">The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.</span></p><p class="hdg">Baasha Rules in Israel</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Baasha son of Ahijah began to rule over all Israel in the third year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. Baasha reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But he did what was evil in the LORD’s sight and followed the example of Jeroboam, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="it">Abijah.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Abishalom</span><span class="ft"> (also in 15:10), a variant spelling of Absalom; compare 2 Chr 11:20.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:6 </span><span class="ft">As in a few Hebrew and Greek manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts read </span><span class="it">between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">The queen mother;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">His mother</span><span class="ft"> (also in 15:13); compare 15:2.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:12 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term (literally </span><span class="it">round things</span><span class="ft">) probably alludes to dung.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">15:19 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">There is a treaty.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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