1Kings:15:9-24

geneva@1Kings:15:9 @ And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:15:10 @ And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his (note:)That is, his grandmother, as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren.(:note) mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

geneva@1Kings:15:11 @ And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:15:12 @ And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

geneva@1Kings:15:13 @ And also Maachah his mother, even her he (note:)Neither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters, but must be punished.(:note) 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.

geneva@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was (note:)Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.(:note) perfect with the LORD all his days.

geneva@1Kings:15:15 @ Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, & the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

geneva@1Kings:15:16 @ And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

geneva@1Kings:15:17 @ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built (note:)For the same reason that Jeroboam did, because the people should not go up to Jerusalem, least they follow Asa.(:note) Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

geneva@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, & the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

geneva@1Kings:15:19 @ [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 (note:)And vex me no longer.(:note) depart from me.

geneva@1Kings:15:20 @ So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, & all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

geneva@1Kings:15:21 @ And when Baasha heard thereof, hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

geneva@1Kings:15:22 @ Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted; they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, & King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

geneva@1Kings:15:23 @ 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 (note:)He had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord, (2Ch_16:12).(:note) feet.

geneva@1Kings:15:24 @ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his (note:)His great-grandfather.(:note) father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

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