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And Abijam slept with his fathers ;
and they buried him in the city of David :
and Asa his son reigned in his stead .
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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah .
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem .
And his mother '
s name was Maachah ,
the daughter of Abishalom .
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And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD ,
as did David his father .
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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 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 .
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But the high places were not removed :
nevertheless 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 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 ,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah .
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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 king '
s house ,
and delivered them into the hand of his servants :
and king Asa sent them to Benhadad ,
the son of Tabrimon ,
the son of Hezion ,
king of Syria ,
that dwelt at Damascus ,
saying ,
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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 ,
that he may depart from me .
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So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa ,
and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel ,
and smote Ijon ,
and Dan ,
and Abelbethmaachah ,
and all Cinneroth ,
with all the land of Naphtali .
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And it came to pass ,
when Baasha heard thereof ,
that he left off building of Ramah ,
and dwelt in Tirzah .
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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 .
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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 chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet .