Holy Bible
(King James Version)
First
Kings: Chapter 15
1. NOW in the eighteenth year
of king Jer-o-bo-am the son of Nebat reigned A-bi-jam over Judah.
2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Ma-a-chah, the daughter of A-bi-sha-lom.
3. And he walked in all the sins of is father, which he had done before
him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart
of David his father.
4. Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD 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 the LORD, and
turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of
his life, save only in the matter of U-ri-ah the Hittite.
6. And there was war between Re-ho-bo-am and Jer-o-bo-am all the days of
his life.
7. Now the rest of the acts of A-bi-jam, 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 Jer-o-bo-am.
8. And A-bi-jam 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 Jer-o-bo-am king of Israel reigned Asa
over Judah.
10. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Ma-a-chah, the daughter of A-bi-sha-lom.
11. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
David his father.
12. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made.
13. And also Ma-a-chah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
burnt it by the brook Kidron.
14. But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
perfect with the LORD all his days.
15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver,
and gold, and vessels.
16. And there was war between Asa and Ba-ash-a king of Israel all their
days.
17. And Ba-ash-a king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that were left in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, 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 Tab-rim-on, the son of He-zi-on, king
of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy
father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come
and break thy league with Ba-ash-a king of Israel, that he may depart
from me.
20. So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote I-jon, and
Dan, and A-bel-beth-ma-a-chah, and all Cin-ne-roth, with all the land of
Naph-ta-li.
21. And it came to pass, when Ba-ash-a heard thereof, that he left off
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22. Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
thereof, wherewith Ba-ash-a had builded; and king Asa built with them
Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23. 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? Nevertheless 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 Je-hosh-a-phat his son reigned in his
stead.
25. And Nadab the son of Je-o-bo-am began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
26. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
27. And Ba-ash-a the son of A-hi-jah, of the house of Is-sa-char,
conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged
to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
28. Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Ba-ash-a slay him,
and reigned in his stead.
29. And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
Jer-o-bo-am, he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had
destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by
his servant A-hi-jah the Shi-lo-nite:
30. Because of the sins of Jer-o-bo-am which he sinned, and which he
made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD 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 Ba-ash-a king of Israel all their
days.
33. In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Ba-ash-a the son of
A-hi-jah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
Jer-o-bo-am, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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