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Chapter 15
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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son
of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. |
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Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
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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. |
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Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God
give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after
him, and to establish Jerusalem: |
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Because David did that which was right in the eyes
of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that
he commanded him all the days of his life, save only
in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. |
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
the days of his life. |
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Now the rest 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? And there was war between Abijam
and Jeroboam. |
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And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in
his stead. |
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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel
reigned Asa over Judah. |
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. |
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And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD, as did David his father. |
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And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made. |
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And also Maachah his mother, even her he 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 perfect with the LORD all his days. |
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And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated,
and the things which himself had dedicated, into the
house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels. |
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
all their days. |
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And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and
built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or
come in to Asa king of Judah. |
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Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were
left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into
the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad,
the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria,
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 depart from me. |
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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 Abelbethmaachah, and all
Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. |
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And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that
he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. |
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Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah;
none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah,
and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded;
and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, 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 feet. |
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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. |
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And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel
in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned
over Israel two years. |
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked
in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he
made Israel to sin. |
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And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all
Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. |
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Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha
slay him, and reigned in his stead. |
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And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote
all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any
that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according
unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Ahijah the Shilonite: |
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Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and
which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith
he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. |
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Now the rest 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? |
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
all their days. |
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha
the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah,
twenty and four years. |
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made
Israel to sin. |
