1 Kings Chapter 15
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1 Kings 15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15:2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless, for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,
1 Kings 15:5 because David did what 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 of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
1 Kings 15:7 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.
1 Kings 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.
1 Kings 15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah,
1 Kings 15:10 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.
1 Kings 15:12 He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.
1 Kings 15:15 And he brought into the house of the LORD the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.
1 Kings 15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15:17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,
1 Kings 15:19 “Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”
1 Kings 15:20 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1 Kings 15:21 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.
1 Kings 15:22 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
1 Kings 15:23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, 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? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.