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1 Now in the eigh­teenth year of king Jer­oboam the son of Nebat reigned Abi­jam over Ju­dah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, 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 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 Uri­ah the Hit­tite. 6 And there was war be­tween Re­hoboam and Jer­oboam all the days of his life. 7 Now 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 reigned Asa over Ju­dah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daugh­ter of Abishalom. 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 Maachah 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 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 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 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 Ben­hadad, the son of Tab­ri­mon, the son of Hezion, 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 Baasha king of Is­rael, that he may de­part from me. 20 So Ben­hadad hear­kened unto king Asa, and sent the cap­tains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Is­rael, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel­beth­maachah, and all Cin­neroth, with all the land of Naph­tali. 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha 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 Baasha 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 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 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 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 laid 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, when he reigned, that 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 the LORD, which he spake by his ser­vant Ahi­jah the Shilonite: 30 Be­cause of the sins of Jer­oboam 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 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, twen­ty and four years. 34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jer­oboam, and in his sin where­with he made Is­rael to sin.