1Kings:15:9-24

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* And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel , Asa reigned over Judah . * And he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years . And his grandmother 's name [was ] Maachah , the daughter of Abishalom . * And Asa did [what was ] right in the eyes of the LORD , as David his father did . * And [he ] took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made . * And also he even removed his mother Maachah from [being ] queen because she had made an idol in a grove . And Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the torrent Kidron . * But the high places were not removed . But Asa 's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days . * And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated , and the things which he himself had dedicated , into the house of the LORD , silver and gold and vessels . * And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days . * And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah , so that he might not allow any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah . * And Asa took all the silver and the gold 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 Tabrimon , the son of Hezion , king of Syria , who lived at Damascus , saying , * [There is ] a treaty between you and me , between my father and your father . Behold , I have sent to you a present of silver and gold . Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel , so that he may depart from me . * And Ben-hadad listened to king Asa , and sent the commanders of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel , and struck Ijon , and Dan , and Abel-beth-maachah , and all Chinneroth , with all the land of Naphtali . * And it happened when Baasha heard , he left off building Ramah and lived in Tirzah . * And king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah . None [was ] free from it . And they took away the stones of Ramah , and its timber with which Baasha had built . And king Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them . * 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 Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet . * And Asa slept with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father . And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place .

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