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So Abijam rested with his fathers ,
and they buried him in the City of David .
Then Asa his son reigned in his place .
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In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel ,
Asa became king over Judah .
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And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem .
His grandmother '
s name was Maachah the granddaughter of Abishalom .
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Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD ,
as did his father David .
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And he banished the perverted persons from the land ,
and removed all the idols that his fathers had made .
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Also he removed Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother ,
because she had made an obscene image of Asherah .
And Asa cut down her obscene image and burned it by the Brook Kidron .
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But the high places were not removed .
Nevertheless Asa '
s heart was loyal to the LORD all his days .
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He also brought into the house of the LORD the things which his father had dedicated ,
and the things which he himself had dedicated :
silver and gold and utensils .
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Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days .
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And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah ,
and built Ramah ,
that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah .
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Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries 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 Tabrimmon ,
the son of Hezion ,
king of Syria ,
who dwelt in Damascus ,
saying ,
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Let there be a treaty between you and me ,
as there was between my father and your father .
See ,
I have sent you a present of silver and gold .
Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel ,
so that he will withdraw from me ."
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So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa ,
and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel .
He attacked Ijon ,
Dan ,
Abel Beth Maachah ,
and all Chinneroth ,
with all the land of Naphtali .
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Now it happened ,
when Baasha heard it ,
that he stopped building Ramah ,
and remained in Tirzah .
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Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah ;
none was exempted .
And they took away the stones and timber of Ramah ,
which Baasha had used for building ;
and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin ,
and Mizpah .
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The rest of all the acts of Asa ,
all his might ,
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 ?
But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet .