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

Abijam Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 13:1—14:1 )

1Ki 15:1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

1Ki 15:2Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the 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 the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

1Ki 15:4

1Ki 15:4Nevertheless, 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:

1Ki 15:5

1Ki 15:5Because 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.

1Ki 15:6

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

1Ki 15:7

1Ki 15:7Now 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 reigned Asa over Judah.

1Ki 15:10

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

1Ki 15:11

1Ki 15:11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

1Ki 15:12

1Ki 15:12And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1Ki 15:13

1Ki 15:13And 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.

1Ki 15:14

1Ki 15:14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

1Ki 15:15

1Ki 15:15And 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.

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 went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

1Ki 15:18

1Ki 15:18Then 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,

1Ki 15:19

1Ki 15:19There 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.

1Ki 15:20

1Ki 15:20So 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.

1Ki 15:21

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

1Ki 15:22

1Ki 15:22Then 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

1Ki 15:23

1Ki 15:23The 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.

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 reigned over Israel two years.

1Ki 15:26

1Ki 15:26And 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.

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; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

1Ki 15:28

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

1Ki 15:29

1Ki 15:29And 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:

1Ki 15:30

1Ki 15:30Because 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.

1Ki 15:31

1Ki 15:31Now 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, twenty and four years.

1Ki 15:34

1Ki 15:34And 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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