[1] Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began
Abijam to reign over Judah. [2] Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and
his mother`s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. [3] He walked in
all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was
not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father. [4]
Nevertheless for David`s sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in
Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; [5]
because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn`t
turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life,
except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. [6] Now there was war
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. [7] The rest of the
acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren`t they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam. [8] Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the
city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. [9] In the twentieth
year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah. [10]
Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Maacah
the daughter of Abishalom. [11] Asa did that which was right in the eyes of
Yahweh, as did David his father. [12] He put away the sodomites out of the
land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. [13] Also Maacah
his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable
image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook
Kidron. [14] But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. [15] He brought into the
house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated, and the things
that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. [16] There was
war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. [17] Baasha king
of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow
anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. [18] Then Asa took all
the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of
Yahweh, 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
Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
[19] [There is] a league between me and you, between my father and your
father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; go, break
your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. [20]
Ben-hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against
the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and
all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. [21] It happened, when
Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
[22] Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and
they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which
Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and
Mizpah. [23] Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren`t they written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old
age he was diseased in his feet. [24] 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 place. [25] 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. [26] He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made
Israel to sin. [27] Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged
to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to
Gibbethon. [28] Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill
him, and reigned in his place. [29] It happened that, as soon as he was
king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn`t leave to Jeroboam any
who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of
Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; [30] for the
sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin,
because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of
Israel, to anger. [31] Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he
did, aren`t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? [32] There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days. [33] In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years.
[34] He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the
way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
