Lexicon :: Strong's G760 - asa

The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands ​— ​nine cities from these two tribes.

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests;

Seraiah was court secretary;

After him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had assembled in formation where there was a field full of lentils. The troops fled from the Philistines,

Abijam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.

Asa did what was right in the LORD’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.

He also removed his grandmother[fn] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all Chinnereth, and the whole land of Naphtali.

Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.

In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

Baasha rested with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah became king in his place.

In the thirty-first year of Judah’s King Asa, Omri became king over Israel, and he reigned twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah,

Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab became king in his place.

Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Israel’s King Ahab.

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the LORD’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away;[fn] the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Solomon’s son was Rehoboam;

his son was Abijah, his son Asa,

his son Jehoshaphat,

Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. During his reign the land experienced peace for ten years.

Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand from Benjamin bearing regular shields and drawing the bow. All these were valiant warriors.

So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in Zephathah Valley at Mareshah.

Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until they had no survivors, for they were crushed before the LORD and his army. So the people of Judah carried off a great supply of loot.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

They were gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholeheartedly devoted his entire life.[fn]

There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa, Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim,[fn] and all the storage cities[fn] of Naphtali.

Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then he built Geba and Mizpah with them.

Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison[fn] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

He walked in the ways of Asa his father; he did not turn away from it but did what was right in the LORD’s sight.

Then a letter came to Jehoram from the prophet Elijah, saying:

This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David says: “Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or in the ways of King Asa of Judah

Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one[fn] that King Asa had made in the encounter with King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.