1Kings:15
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And in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat ,
Abijam reigned over Judah .
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name [
was ]
Maachah ,
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 perfect with the LORD his God ,
as the heart of David his father .
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But for David '
s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem ,
to set up his son after him ,
and to establish Jerusalem ,
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because David did [
what was ]
right in the eyes of the LORD ,
and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life ,
except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite .
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life .
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And the rest of the acts of Abijam ,
and all that he did , [
are ]
they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ?
And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam .
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And Abijam slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him in the city of David .
And his son Asa reigned in his place .
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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel ,
Asa reigned over Judah .
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And he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years .
And his grandmother '
s name [
was ]
Maachah ,
the daughter of Abishalom .
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And Asa did [
what was ]
right in the eyes of the LORD ,
as David his father did .
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And [
he ]
took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made .
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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 .
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But the high places were not removed .
But Asa '
s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days .
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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 .
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 .
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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 .
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And it happened when Baasha heard ,
he left off building Ramah and lived in Tirzah .
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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 .
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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 .
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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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And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah ,
and reigned over Israel two years .
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And [
he ]
did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and walked in the way of his father ,
and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin .
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And Baasha the son of Ahijah ,
of the house of Issachar ,
conspired against him .
And Baasha struck him at Gibbethon ,
which [
was ]
to the Philistines .
For Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon .
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And in the third year of Asa king of Judah ,
Baasha killed him and reigned in his place .
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And it happened when he reigned ,
he struck all the house of Jeroboam .
He did not leave Jeroboam any who breathed ,
until he had destroyed him ,
according to the saying of the LORD which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the man of Shiloh ,
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because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned ,
and which he made Israel sin ,
by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger .
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And the rest of the acts of Nadab ,
and all that he did , [
are ]
they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel ?
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days .
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah ,
Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah ,
twenty-four years .
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and walked in the way of Jeroboam ,
and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin .