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* In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam , the son of Nebat , Abijam became king over Judah . * He ruled three years as king in Jerusalem . His mother 's name was Maacah , the daughter of Abishalom . * He was not completely loyal to Jehovah his God as his great-grandfather David had been . He committed the same sins as his father did . * For David 's sake Jehovah his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising Abijam a son to rule after him to keep Jerusalem secure . * Jehovah did this because David had done what was right in Jehovah ’s eyes . He obeyed his commandments , except in the case of Uriah the Hittite . * Abijam continued the war that Rehoboam and Jeroboam started . There was war throughout Abijam 's lifetime . * Everything else that Abijah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah . * Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers , and they buried him in the earth in the town of David . Asa his son became king in his place . * Jeroboam had been king of Israel twenty years . Asa became king of Judah . * He was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem . His mother 's name was Maacah , the daughter of Abishalom . * Asa did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah , as David his father did . * 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 . * 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 . * The high places were not taken away . Nevertheless Asa ’s heart was true to Jehovah all his life . * He brought into the Temple of Jehovah all the things he and his father made holy , silver and gold and vessels . * There was war between Asa and Baasha , king of Israel , through out their reigns . * 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 . * Then Asa took all the silver and gold still stored in Jehovah ’s 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 : * 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 . * Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa ’s 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 . * When Baasha heard this he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah . * 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 . * The rest of the events of Asa ’s 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 . * 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 . * Nadab , the son of Jeroboam , became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah ; and he was king of Israel for two years . * He did evil in the eyes of Jehovah . He copied the evil ways of his father . He made Israel sin so much that they provoked Jehovah to anger with their idols . * And Baasha , the son of Ahijah , of the family of Issachar , made a secret design against him , attacking him at Gibbethon , a town of the Philistines . Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon . * In the third year of the rule of Asa , king of Judah , Baasha put him to death , and became king in his place . * When he became king , he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam . He killed every person of the family of Jeroboam according to the word of Jehovah as stated by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite . * This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of Jehovah , the God of Israel , by the sins he committed and that he caused Israel to commit . * Everything else that Nadab did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel . * King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were constantly at war as long as they reigned . * In the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah , Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel . He ruled in Tirzah for twenty-four years . * Like King Jeroboam before him , he sinned against Jehovah and led Israel into sin .

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