The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Kings 15
1 Now in the eighteenth year of King
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began
to reign over Judah.
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem.
His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
3 He walked in all the sins of his father,
which he had done before him; and his
heart was not perfect with Yahweh his
God, as the heart of David his father.
4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh
his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to
set up his son after him and to establish
Jerusalem;
5 because David did that which was right
in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away
from anything that he commanded him
all the days of his life, except only in the
matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
life.
7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all
that he did, aren’t they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 Abijam slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son
reigned in his place.
9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king
of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
10 He reigned forty-one years in
Jerusalem. His mother’s name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11 Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.
12 He put away the sodomites out of the
land, and removed all the idols that his
fathers had made.
13 He also removed Maacah his mother
from being queen, because she had made
an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa
cut down her image and burned it at the
brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not taken
away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was
perfect with Yahweh all his days.
15 He brought into Yahweh’s house the
things that his father had dedicated, and
the things that he himself had dedicated:
silver, gold, and utensils.
16 There was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17 Baasha king of Israel went up against
Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not
allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa
king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the
gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the
king’s house, and delivered itinto the hand
of his servants. Then King Asa sent them
to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the
son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at
Damascus, saying,
19 “Let there be a treaty between me and
you, like that between my father and your
father. Behold, I have sent to you a present
of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty
with Baasha king of Israel, that he may
depart from me.”
20 Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and
sent the captains of his armies against the
cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan,
and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth,
with all the land of Naphtali.
21 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped
building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
22 Then King Asa made a proclamation
to all Judah. No one was exempted. They
carried away the stones of Ramah, and its
timber, with which Baasha had built; and
King Asa used itto build Geba of Benjamin,
and Mizpah.
23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and
all his might, and all that he did, and the
cities which he built, aren’t they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? Butin the time of his old age he was
diseased in his feet.
24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in his father
David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son
reigned in his place.
25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to
reign over Israel in the second year of Asa
king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel
two years.
26 He did that which was evil inYahweh’s
sight, and walked in the way of his father,
and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house
of Issachar, conspired against him; and
Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which
belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and
all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of
Judah, Baasha killed him and reigned in
his place.
29 As soon as he was king, he struck all
the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave
to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he
had destroyed him, according to the saying
of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant
Ahijah the Shilonite;
30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he
sinned, and with which he made Israel to
sin, because of his provocation with which
he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to
anger.
31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab,
and all that he did, aren’t they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
32 There was war between Asa and
Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah,
Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign
over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four
years.
34 He did that which was evil inYahweh’s
sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam,
and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.