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King Abijah of Judah

15In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam of Israel, Abijah became king of Judah,H8083H6240H8141H4428H3379H1121H5028H4427H38H3063
2and he ruled three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.H7969H8141H4427H3389H517H8034H4601H1323H53
3He committed the same sins as his father and was not completely loyal to the LORD his God, as his great-grandfather David had been.H3212H2403H1H6213H6440H3824H8003H3068H430H3824H1732H1
4But for David's sake the LORD his God gave Abijah a son to rule after him in Jerusalem and to keep Jerusalem secure.H1732H3068H430H5414H5216H3389H6965H1121H310H5975H3389
5The LORD did this because David had done what pleased him and had never disobeyed any of his commands, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.H1732H6213H3477H5869H3068H5493H6680H3117H2416H1697H223H2850
6The war which had begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued throughout Abijah's lifetime.H4421H7346H3379H3117H2416
7And everything else that Abijah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.H3499H1697H38H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063H4421H38H3379
8Abijah died and was buried in David's City, and his son Asa succeeded him as king.H38H7901H1H6912H5892H1732H609H1121H4427

King Asa of Judah

9In the twentieth year of the reign of King Jeroboam of Israel, Asa became king of Judah,H6242H8141H3379H4428H3478H4427H609H3063
10and he ruled forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.H705H259H8141H4427H3389H517H8034H4601H1323H53
11Asa did what pleased the LORD, as his ancestor David had done.H609H6213H3477H5869H3068H1732H1
12He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.H5674H6945H776H5493H1544H1H6213
13He removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol and burned it in Kidron Valley.H4601H517H5493H1377H6213H4656H842H609H3772H4656H8313H5158H6939
14Even though Asa did not destroy all the pagan places of worship, he remained faithful to the LORD all his life.H1116H5493H609H3824H8003H3068H3117
15He placed in the Temple all the objects his father had dedicated to God, as well as the gold and silver objects that he himself dedicated.H935H6944H1H6944H6944H1004H3068H3701H2091H3627
16King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were constantly at war with each other as long as they were in power.H4421H609H1201H4428H3478H3117
17Baasha invaded Judah and started to fortify Ramah in order to cut off all traffic in and out of Judah.H1201H4428H3478H5927H3063H1129H7414H5414H3318H935H609H4428H3063
18So King Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the Temple and the palace, and sent it by some of his officials to Damascus, to King Benhadad of Syria, the son of Tabrimmon and grandson of Hezion, with this message:H609H3947H3701H2091H3498H214H1004H3068H214H4428H1004H5414H3027H5650H4428H609H7971H1130H1121H2886H1121H2383H4428H758H3427H1834H559
19"Let us be allies, as our fathers were. This silver and gold is a present for you. Now break your alliance with King Baasha of Israel, so that he will have to pull his troops out of my territory."H1285H1H1H7971H7810H3701H2091H3212H6565H1285H1201H4428H3478H5927
20King Benhadad agreed to Asa's proposal and sent his commanding officers and their armies to attack the cities of Israel. They captured Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, the area near Lake Galilee, and the whole territory of Naphtali.H1130H8085H4428H609H7971H8269H2428H5892H3478H5221H5859H1835H62H3672H776H5321
21When King Baasha heard what had happened, he stopped fortifying Ramah and went to Tirzah.H1201H8085H2308H1129H7414H3427H8656
22Then King Asa sent out an order throughout all of Judah requiring everyone, without exception, to help carry away from Ramah the stones and timber that Baasha had been using to fortify it. With this material Asa fortified Mizpah and Geba, a city in the territory of Benjamin.H4428H609H8085H3063H5355H5375H68H7414H6086H1201H1129H4428H609H1129H1387H1144H4709
23Everything else that King Asa did, his brave deeds and the towns he fortified, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah. But in his old age he was crippled by a foot disease.H3499H1697H609H1369H6213H5892H1129H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3063H6256H2209H2470H7272
24Asa died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City, and his son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king.H609H7901H1H6912H1H5892H1732H1H3092H1121H4427

King Nadab of Israel

25In the second year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, King Jeroboam's son Nadab became king of Israel, and he ruled for two years.H5070H1121H3379H4427H3478H8147H8141H609H4428H3063H4427H3478H8147H8141
26Like his father before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3212H1870H1H2403H3478H2398
27Baasha son of Ahijah, of the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and killed him as Nadab and his army were besieging the city of Gibbethon in Philistia.H1201H1121H281H1004H3485H7194H1201H5221H1405H6430H5070H3478H6696H1405
28This happened during the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah. And so Baasha succeeded Nadab as king of Israel.H7969H8141H609H4428H3063H1201H4191H4427
29At once he began killing all the members of Jeroboam's family. In accordance with what the LORD had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh, all of Jeroboam's family were killed; not one survived.H4427H5221H1004H3379H7604H3379H5397H8045H1697H3068H1696H3027H5650H281H7888
30This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by the sins that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.H2403H3379H2398H3478H2398H3708H3068H430H3478H3707
31Everything else that Nadab did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.H3499H1697H5070H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3478
32King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were constantly at war with each other as long as they were in power.H4421H609H1201H4428H3478H3117

King Baasha of Israel

33In the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he ruled in Tirzah for twenty-four years.H7969H8141H609H4428H3063H1201H1121H281H4427H3478H8656H6242H702H8141
34Like King Jeroboam before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin.H6213H7451H5869H3068H3212H1870H3379H2403H3478H2398


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