1Kings:15:9-24

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* And in the twentieth year of Jerobo ’am the king of Israel became Assa king over Judah . * And forty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem . And the name of his mother was Ma ’achah , the daughter of Abishalom . * And Assa did what is right in the eyes of the Lord , like David his father . * And he put away the sodomites out of the land , and removed all the idols which his fathers had made . * And also Ma ’achah his mother , even her he removed from being queen ; because she had made a scandalous image for the grove ; and Assa cut down her scandalous image , and burnt it by the brook Kidron . * But the high –places were not removed ; nevertheless Assa ’s heart was entire with the Lord all his days . * And he brought the things which his father had sanctified , and his own sanctified things , into the house of the Lord , silver , and gold , and vessels . * And there was war between Assa and Ba ’sha the king of Israel all their days . * And Ba ’sha the king of Israel went up against Judah , and built Ramah , in order not to suffer any one to go out or come in to Assa the king of Judah . * Then did Assa take 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 hand of his servants ; and king Assa sent them to Ben –hadad , the son of Tabrimmon , the son of Chesyon , the king of Syria , who dwelt in Damascus , saying , * A covenant is between me and thee , between my father and thy father : behold , I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold ; go and do break thy covenant with Ba ’sha the king of Israel , that he may withdraw from me . * And Ben –hadad hearkened unto king Assa , and sent the captains of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel , and smote ‘Iyon , and Dan , and Abel –beth –ma ’achah , and the whole of Kinneroth , with all the land of Naphtali . * And it came to pass , when Ba ’sha heard this , that he left off the building of Ramah , and remained in Tirzah . * Then king Assa called together by proclamation all Judah , none being exempted : and they took away the stones of Ramah , and its timber , wherewith Ba ’sha had built ; and king Assa built with them Geba ’ of Benjamin , and Mizpah . * And the rest of all the acts of Assa , and all his mighty deeds , and all that he did , and the cities which he built , behold , they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah . Nevertheless in the time of his old age he became diseased in his feet . * And Assa slept with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father : and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his stead .

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