1 Kings 15
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to
reign over Judah.
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the
daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and
his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his
father.
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Jehovah his God give him a lamp in
Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not
aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in
the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 And 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.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David:
and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over
Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as did David his
father.
12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that
his fathers had made.
13 And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made
an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at
the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was
perfect with Jehovah all his days.
15 And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things that his father had
dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and
vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he
might not suffer any one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of
the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them
into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of
Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19 [There is] a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father:
behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league
with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
20 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies
against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and
all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building
Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted: and they
carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had
builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did,
and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased
in his feet.
24 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 stead.
25 And 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.
26 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way
of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against
him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for
Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned
in his stead.
29 And it came to pass that, as soon as he was king, he smote all the house of
Jeroboam: he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him;
according unto the saying of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite;
30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to
sin, because of his provocation wherewith he provoked Jehovah, the God of
Israel, to anger.
31 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?
32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to
reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty and four years.
34 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way
of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.