1Kings:15
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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jerobo
am the son of Nebat became Abiyam king over Judah .
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Three years he reigned in Jerusalem .
And his mother
s name was Ma
achah ,
the daughter of Abishalom .
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And he walked in all the sins of his father ,
which he had done before him ;
and his heart was not entire with the Lord his God ,
like the heart of David his father .
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Nevertheless for the sake of David did the Lord his God give him a rule in Jerusalem ,
to set up his son after him ,
and to allow Jerusalem to exist .
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Because David did what is right in the eyes of the Lord ,
and turned not aside from all that he had commanded him all the days of his life ,
save only in the matter of Uriyah the Hittite .
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And there had been war between Rehobo
am and Jerobo
am all the days of his life .
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And the rest of the acts of Abiyam ,
and all that he did ,
behold ,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .
And there was war between Abiyam and Jerobo
am .
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And Abiyam slept with his fathers ;
and they buried him in the city of David :
and Assa his son became king in his stead .
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And in the twentieth year of Jerobo
am the king of Israel became Assa king over Judah .
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And forty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem .
And the name of his mother was Ma
achah ,
the daughter of Abishalom .
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And Assa did what is right in the eyes of the Lord ,
like David his father .
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And he put away the sodomites out of the land ,
and removed all the idols which his fathers had made .
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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 .
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But the high
places were not removed ;
nevertheless Assa
s heart was entire with the Lord all his days .
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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 .
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And there was war between Assa and Ba
sha the king of Israel all their days .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 .
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And it came to pass ,
when Ba
sha heard this ,
that he left off the building of Ramah ,
and remained in Tirzah .
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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 .
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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 .
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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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And Nadab the son of Jerobo
am became king over Israel in the second year of Assa the king of Judah ;
and he reigned over Israel two years .
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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord ,
and he walked in the way of his father ,
and in his sin wherewith he had induced Israel to sin .
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And Ba
sha the son of Achiyah ,
of the house of Issachar ,
conspired against him ;
and Ba
sha smote him at Gibbethon ,
which belonged to the Philistines :
while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon .
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And Ba
sha slew him in the third year of Assa the king of Judah ,
and became king in his stead .
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And it came to pass ,
when he reigned ,
that he smote all the house of Jerobo
am ;
he left not any that breathed unto Jerobo
am ,
until he had destroyed him ,
according to the word of the Lord ,
which he had spoken by his servant Achiyah the Shilonite ;
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Because of the sins of Jerobo
am which he had sinned ,
and through which he had induced Israel to sin ,
by his provoking wherewith he provoked the Lord the God of Israel to anger .
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And the rest of the acts of Nadab ,
and all that he did ,
behold ,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .
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And there was war between Assa and Ba
sha the king of Israel all their days .
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In the third year of Assa the king of Judah became Ba
sha the son of Achiyah king over all Israel ,
in Thirzah ,
twenty and four years .
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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord ,
and walked in the way of Jerobo
am ,
and in his sin wherewith he had induced Israel to sin .