I Kings Chapter 15

I Kings Chapter 15
1 And in the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, reigned
Abijam over Judah.
2 Three year reigned he in Jerusalem,
and his mother's name was Maachah the
daughter of Abishalom.
3 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.
4 But for David's sake did the Lord his
God give him a light in Jerusalem, and
set up his son after him, and established
Jerusalem,
5 Because David did that which was
right in the sight of the Lord, and turned
from nothing that he commanded him, all
the days of his life, save only in the
matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as he
lived. 7 The rest also of the acts of
Abijam, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Judah? There was also war
between Abijam, and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David: and
Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twenty year of Jeroboam
king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10 He reigned in Jerusalem one and
forty year, and his mother's name was
Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did right in the eyes of the
Lord, as did David his father. 12 And he
took away the Sodomites out of the land,
and put away all the idols that his fathers
had made.
13 And he put down Maachah his mother
also from her estate, because she had
made an idol in a grove: and Asa
destroyed her idols, and burned them by
the brook Kidron.
14 But they put not down the high places.
Nevertheless Asa's heart was upright
with the Lord all his days.
15 Also he brought in the holy vessels of
his father, and the things that he had
dedicated unto the house of the Lord,
silver, and gold, and vessels. 16 And
there was war between Asa and Baasha
king of Israel all their days. 17 Then
Baasha king of Israel went up against
Judah, and built Ramah, so that he would
let none go out or in to Asa king of
Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the
gold that was left in the treasures of the
house of the Lord, and the treasures of
the king's house, and delivered them into
the hands of his servants, and king Asa
sent them to Ben-hadad the son of
Tabrimon, the son of Hezion king of
Aram [Syria] that dwelt at Damascus,
saying,
19 There is a covenant between me and
thee, and between my father and thy
father: behold, I have sent unto thee a
present of silver and gold: come, break
thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel,
that he may depart from me. 20 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 Abel-beth-maachah,
and all Cinneroth, with all the land of
Naphtali. 21 And when Baasha heard
thereof, he left building of Ramah, and
dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then king Asa assembled all Judah,
none accepted. and they took the stones
of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
wherewith Baasha had built, and king
Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin
and Mizpah.
23 And 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? But in his old age he
was diseased in his feet. 24 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. 25 And Nadab the son of
Jeroboam began to reign over Israel the
second year of Asa king of Judah, and
reigned over Israel two year.
26 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, walking in the way of his father,
and in his sin wherewith he made Israel
to sin.
27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah of the
house of Issachar conspired against him,
and Baasha slew him at Gibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines: for
Nadab and all Israel laid siege to
Gibbethon.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of
Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned
in his stead.
29 And when he was king, he smote all
the house of Jeroboam, he left none alive
to Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him,
according to the word of the Lord which
he spake by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite,
30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam
which he committed, and wherewith he
made Israel to sin, by his provocation,
wherewith he provoked the Lord God of
Israel.
31 And the residue of the acts of Nadab,
and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
32 And there was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel, all their days. 33
In the third year of Asa king of Judah,
began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign
over all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned
four and twenty years. 34 And he did
evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in
the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin,
wherewith he made Israel to sin.