1 Kings 15 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abijam Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 13:1—14:1 )

1Ki 15:1And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.

1Ki 15:2He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom.

1Ki 15:3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

1Ki 15:4

1Ki 15:4But for David's sake Jehovah his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;

1Ki 15:5

1Ki 15:5because David did that which was right in the sight of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Urijah the Hittite.

1Ki 15:6

1Ki 15:6And there had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

1Ki 15:7

1Ki 15:7And 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

1Ki 15:8

1Ki 15:8And 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 )

1Ki 15:9

1Ki 15:9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah;

1Ki 15:10

1Ki 15:10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.

1Ki 15:11

1Ki 15:11And Asa did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as David his father.

1Ki 15:12

1Ki 15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

1Ki 15:13

1Ki 15:13And also Maachah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and burned it in the valley of Kidron.

1Ki 15:14

1Ki 15:14But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

1Ki 15:15

1Ki 15:15And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, silver and gold and vessels.

1Ki 15:16

1Ki 15:16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1Ki 15:17

1Ki 15:17And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

1Ki 15:18

1Ki 15:18And Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,

1Ki 15:19

1Ki 15:19There is a league between me and thee, as between my father and thy father; behold, I send thee a present of silver and gold: go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1Ki 15:20

1Ki 15:20And Ben-Hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his forces against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1Ki 15:21

1Ki 15:21And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

1Ki 15:22

1Ki 15:22And king Asa called together all Judah: none was exempted; and they carried away the stones and the timber from Ramah, with which Baasha had been building; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa

1Ki 15:23

1Ki 15:23And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only, in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1Ki 15:24

1Ki 15:24And 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

1Ki 15:25

1Ki 15:25And 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.

1Ki 15:26

1Ki 15:26And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel sin.

1Ki 15:27

1Ki 15:27And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, when Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

1Ki 15:28

1Ki 15:28And Baasha slew him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

1Ki 15:29

1Ki 15:29And it came to pass when he was king, he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left to Jeroboam none that breathed; until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

1Ki 15:30

1Ki 15:30because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger.

1Ki 15:31

1Ki 15:31And 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

1Ki 15:32

1Ki 15:32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1Ki 15:33

1Ki 15:33In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, for twenty-four years.

1Ki 15:34

1Ki 15:34And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.

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