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* Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat , Abijah began to reign over Judah . * He reigned three years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom [Absalom ]. * And he walked in all the sins of his father , which he had done before him . And his heart was not perfect with LORD his God as the heart of David his father . * Nevertheless for David 's sake LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem , to set up his son after him , and to establish Jerusalem , * because David did that which was right in the eyes of LORD , and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life , except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite . * Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life . * And the rest of the acts of Abijah , 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 Abijah and Jeroboam . * And Abijah slept with his fathers , and they buried him in the city of David . And Asa his son reigned in his stead . * And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel , Asa began to reign over Judah . * And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem . And his grandmother 's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom [Absalom ]. * And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of LORD as David his father did . * And he put away the sodomites out of the land , and removed all the idols that his fathers had made . * And also he removed Maacah his grandmother from being queen because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah . And Asa cut down her image , and burnt it at the brook Kidron . * But the high places were not taken away . Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with LORD all his days . * And he brought into the house of LORD the things that his father had dedicated , and the things that he himself had dedicated , 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 , that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah . * Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of 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 o * [There is ] a league between me and thee , between my father and thy father . Behold , I have sent to thee a present of silver and gold . Go , break thy league with Baasha king of Israel , that he may depart from me . * And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa , and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel , and smote Ijon , and Dan , and Abel-beth-maacah , and all Chinneroth , with all the land of Naphtali . * And it came to pass , when Baasha heard of it , that he left off building Ramah , and dwelt in Tirzah . * Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah ; none was exempted . And they carried away the stones of Ramah , and the timber of it , with which Baasha had built . And king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin , and Mizpah . * Now 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 ? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in * 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 . * And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah . And he reigned over Israel two years . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD , and walked in the way of his father , and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin . * 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 were laying siege to Gibbethon . * Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah , and reigned in his stead . * And it came to pass that , as soon as he was king , he smote all the house of Jeroboam . He left to Jeroboam not any who breathed , until he had destroyed him according to the saying of LORD , which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Sh * for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned , and with which he made Israel to sin , because of his provocation with which he provoked LORD , the God of Israel , to anger . * 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 ? * And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days . * In the third year of Asa king of Judah , Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah , [and reigned ] twenty-four years . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of LORD , and walked in the way of Jeroboam , and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin .

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