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And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah .
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem .
And his (
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That is ,
his grandmother ,
as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren .(:
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mother '
s name [
was ]
Maachah ,
the daughter of Abishalom .
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And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord ,
as did Dauid his father .
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And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande ,
and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made .
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And also Maachah his mother ,
even her he (
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Neither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters ,
but must be punished .(:
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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 (
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Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance ,
and not from malice .(:
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perfect with the LORD all his days .
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Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father , &
amp ;
the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord ,
siluer ,
and golde ,
and vessels .
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And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes .
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And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah ,
and built (
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For the same reason that Jeroboam did ,
because the people should not go up to Jerusalem ,
least they follow Asa .(:
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Ramah ,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah .
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Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord , &
amp ;
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 ,
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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 (
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And vex me no longer .(:
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depart from me .
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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 , &
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all Cinneroth ,
with all the land of Naphtali .
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And when Baasha heard thereof ,
hee left buylding of Ramah ,
and dwelt in Tirzah .
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Then king Asa assembled al Iudah ,
none excepted ;
they tooke the stones of Ramah ,
and the timber thereof ,
wherewith Baasha had buylt , &
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King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin 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 (
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He had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord , (
2Ch_16
:12 ).(:
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feet .
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And Asa slept with his fathers ,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his (
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His great-grandfather .(:
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father :
and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead .