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1 Kings 15 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Abijam Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 13:1—14:1 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 - Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 - Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:4 - Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:6 - And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 - 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.

Asa Succeeds Abijam

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8 - And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
(2Ch 14:1—16:14 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 - And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 - And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 - But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:15 - And he brought 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:16 - And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - 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 Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 - There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent to thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - So Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the armies 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - And it came to pass, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:22 - Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built it; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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 feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:24 - 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.

Nadab, then Baasha, Rules over Israel

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:26 - And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:28 - Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - 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 to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:31 - 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?

War with Judah

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:32 - And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:33 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 - And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
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