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1 Kings 15
Abijam (Abijah) Son of Rehoboam, King of Judah
151In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam[] became king over Judah. 2He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ma'akah, granddaughter of Abishalom.[] 3He walked in all the sins which his father had practiced before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his grandfather David had been. 4But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by making Jerusalem strong. 5He did this because David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and he had not turned from all that the Lord commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 7As for the rest of Abijam's acts and everything he did, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8Abijam rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then his son Asa became king in his place.
Asa Son of Abijam, King of Judah
9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa king of Judah became king. 10He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's[] name was Ma'akah granddaughter of Abishalom. 11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as his father David had done. 12He drove the male shrine prostitutes out of the land, and he removed all the filthy idols which his fathers had made. 13In addition, he also removed his grandmother Ma'akah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah.
Asa cut down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was fully committed to the Lord all his days. 15He brought silver and gold and vessels and utensils into the House of the Lord as dedicated offerings for himself and his father.
16There was war between Asa and Ba'asha king of Israel throughout all their days. 17Ba'asha king of Israel attacked Judah, and he fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. 18So Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the House of the Lord and the treasuries of the king's palace, and he gave them to his officials. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was living in Damascus. 19He said, “There should be a treaty between you and me as there was between my father and your father. Look, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Come, break your treaty with Ba'asha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
20Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his army against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Ma'akah, and all of Kinneret, as well as all the land of Naphtali. 21When Ba'asha heard about this, he stopped fortifying Ramah, and he stayed in Tirzah. 22Then King Asa summoned all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timber with which Ba'asha had been building, and King Asa used them to fortify Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.
23As for all the rest of Asa's acts and all his mighty deeds and everything else he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Judah? But in his old age his feet became diseased. 24Asa rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then his son Jehoshaphat became king in his place.
Nadab Son of Jeroboam, King of Israel
25Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah. He ruled over Israel for two years. 26He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. He walked in the ways of his father and in the sin which he had caused Israel to commit. 27Ba'asha son of Ahijah from the house of Issachar conspired against him and struck him down in Gibbethon, which belongs to the Philistines. (Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.) 28Ba'asha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.
Ba'asha Son of Ahijah, King of Israel
29When Ba'asha became king, he struck down the whole house of Jeroboam, until it was exterminated according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken through his servant Ahijah from Shiloh. From Jeroboam's house he did not spare anyone who breathed, 30because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he caused Israel to commit when he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger.
31As for the rest of Nadab's acts and everything he did, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Israel? 32There was war between Asa and Ba'asha king of Israel all their days. 33In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Ba'asha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah and reigned for twenty-four years. 34He did evil in the eyes of the Lord by walking in the way of Jeroboam and in the sin that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
Footnotes
- 15:1 He is called Abijah in 2 Chronicles 13.
- 15:2 Abishalom is a variant spelling of Absalom. Literally, the Hebrew reads daughter of Abishalom. Data in 2 Chronicles 13:2 implies that Ma'akah was Absalom's granddaughter rather than his daughter.
- 15:9 The Chronicles account of Asa's reign, which is much longer than the account in Kings, includes all of chapters 14–16 of 2 Chronicles. The references in parentheses list the closest parallels.
- 15:10 Literally mother's. But see verses 2 and 13 as well as 2 Chronicles 11:20 and 13:2.