nsb - 1Kings:15:9-24

nsb@1Kings:15:9 @ Jeroboam had been king of Israel twenty years. Asa became king of Judah.

nsb@1Kings:15:10 @ He was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

nsb@1Kings:15:11 @ Asa did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as David his father did.

nsb@1Kings:15:12 @ He banished perverted persons from the land. He removed those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods. He removed all the idols his fathers had made.

nsb@1Kings:15:13 @ He would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah. Asa had the obscene image cut down and burned by the Kidron Stream.

nsb@1Kings:15:14 @ The high places were not taken away. Nevertheless Asas heart was true to Jehovah all his life.

nsb@1Kings:15:15 @ He brought into the Temple of Jehovah all the things he and his father made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

nsb@1Kings:15:16 @ There was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, through out their reigns.

nsb@1Kings:15:17 @ And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah. He fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or in to Asa the king of Judah.

nsb@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa took all the silver and gold still stored in Jehovahs Temple, and in the king's house, and delivered them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus. He said:

nsb@1Kings:15:19 @ Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.

nsb@1Kings:15:20 @ Ben-hadad agreed to King Asas request and sent his armies to attack Israel. He conquered Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as the land of Naphtali.

nsb@1Kings:15:21 @ When Baasha heard this he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

nsb@1Kings:15:22 @ Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah. Every man came to carry away the stone and the timber Baasha used to fortify Ramah. King Asa used them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

nsb@1Kings:15:23 @ The rest of the events of Asas reign, the extent of his power and the names of the cities he built are all recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. His feet became diseased, as he grew old.

nsb@1Kings:15:24 @ So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was buried in the town of David his father. Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.