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* Now in the eighteenth sh @moneh # year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah . * Three years reigned he in Jerusalem . And his mothers name was Maachah Ma #akah #, the daughter of Abishalom . * 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 . * Nevertheless for Davids sake did the LORD his God give 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 the LORD , and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life , save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite . * And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life . * Now the rest of the acts of Abijam , and all that he did , are they not written in the book of the chronicles dabar # of the kings of Judah ? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam Yarob #am #. * And Abijam 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 reigned Asa over Judah . * And forty #arba #iym # and one years reigned he in Jerusalem . And his mothers name was Maachah Ma #akah #, the daughter of Abishalom . * And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD , as did David his father . * And he took away the sodomites out of the land , and removed all the idols that his fathers had made . * And also Maachah his mother , even her he removed from being queen , because she had made an idol in a grove ; and Asa destroyed her idol , and burnt it by the brook Kidron . * But the high places were not removed : nevertheless Asas heart was perfect with the LORD all his days . * And he brought in the things # which his father had dedicated , and the things which himself had dedicated , into the house of the LORD , 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 suffer any 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 the LORD , and the treasures of the kings house , and delivered them into the hand of his servants : and king Asa sent them to Benhadad Ben-Hadad #, the son of Tabrimon , the son of Hezion , king of Syria , that dwelt at Damascus , saying , * There is a league between me and thee , and between my father and thy father : behold , I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold ; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel Yisra #el #, that he may depart from me . * So Benhadad Ben-Hadad # hearkened unto king Asa , and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel Yisra #el #, and smote Ijon , and Dan , and Abelbethmaachah #Abel Beyth-Ma #akah #, and all Cinneroth , with all the land of Naphtali . * And it came to pass , when Baasha heard thereof , that he left off building of Ramah , and dwelt in Tirzah . * Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah ; none was exempted : and they took away the stones of Ramah , and the timber thereof , wherewith Baasha had builded ; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin , and Mizpah . * 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 dabar # of the kings of Judah ? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet . * 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 reigned over Israel two years . * And he did evil in the sight of the LORD , and walked in the way of his father , and in his sin wherewith 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 laid siege to Gibbethon . * Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him , and reigned in his stead . * And it came to pass , when he reigned , that he smote all the house of Jeroboam Yarob #am #; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed , until he had destroyed him , according unto the saying of the LORD , which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite : * Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned , and which he made Israel sin , by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD 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 dabar # of the kings of Israel Yisra #el #? * And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days . * In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah , twenty and four years . * And he did evil in the sight of the LORD , and walked in the way of Jeroboam Yarob #am #, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin .

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