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1Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijah became king over Judah.
2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.[#2Ch 13:2]
3He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.[#Ps 119:80; #1Ki 11:4]
4Nevertheless, for David’s sake, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,[#1Ki 11:36; 2Ch 21:7]
5because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter involving Uriah the Hittite.[#1Ki 14:8; #2Sa 11:15–17]
6The war begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued all the days of his life.[#1Ki 14:30]
7Now the rest of the acts of Abijah 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 Abijah and Jeroboam.[#2Ch 13:2–22]
8Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David, and Asa his son reigned in his place.[#2Ch 14:1]
9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.
10He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and his grandmother’s name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.[#1Ki 15:2]
11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord , just as his father David had done.[#2Ch 14:2]
12He expelled the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.[#1Ki 22:46]
13In addition he even deposed his grandmother Maacah as queen, because she had made an idol in a grove. Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the Kidron brook.[#Ex 32:20]
14But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.[#1Ki 22:43; #1Ki 15:3]
15He brought into the house of the Lord the things that both his father and he himself had dedicated, the silver and gold and cups.[#1Ki 7:51]
16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.[#1Ki 15:32]
17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah so he could prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.[#Jos 18:25; #1Ki 12:27]
18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord , as well as the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants, and he sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived at Damascus, saying,[#1Ki 14:26; #2Ki 12:18]
19“There is a treaty between me and you and between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so he will depart from me.”
20So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel of Beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, along with all the land of Naphtali.[#Jdg 18:29; #Jos 11:2; #2Ki 15:29]
21When Baasha heard about it, he halted the fortification of Ramah and moved to Tirzah.[#1Ki 14:17; 16:15–18]
22Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah—none was exempted—and they took away the stones of Ramah and the timber with which Baasha had built, and King Asa used them to build Geba of Benjamin as well as Mizpah.[#Jos 18:24; 21:17]
23The rest of all the acts of Asa and 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? When he was old, he got a disease in his feet.
24Asa then slept with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.[#1Ki 22:41–43; Mt 1:8]
25Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah and reigned over Israel two years.[#1Ki 14:20]
26He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.[#1Ki 14:16; 15:30]
27Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha killed him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.[#Jos 19:44; 21:23]
28It was in the third year of Asa king of Judah that Baasha killed him and took his throne.
29When he became king, Baasha killed all the house of Jeroboam. No one from Jeroboam’s family was left breathing. He completely destroyed them, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,[#1Ki 14:9–16]
30because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
31Now 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?[#1Ki 14:19]
32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.[#1Ki 15:16]
33In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah; he reigned twenty-four years.
34He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.[#1Ki 12:28–29; 15:26]