| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the eighteenth year of Israel's King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not completely devoted to the LORD his God as his ancestor David had been. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But because of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For David did what was right in the LORD's eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam's life. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The rest of the events of Abijam's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In the twentieth year of Israel's King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judah |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Asa did what was right in the LORD's eyes, as his ancestor David had done. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He also removed his grandmother 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The high places were not taken away; but Asa's heart was completely devoted to the LORD his entire life. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He brought his father's consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the LORD's temple: silver, gold, and utensils. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Israel's King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to deny anyone access to Judah's King Asa. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the LORD's temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and put it into the hands of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying, " |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Ben-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. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then 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. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The rest of all the events of Asa's reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then Asa rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Judah's King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Nadab did what was evil in the LORD's sight and followed the example of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In the third year of Judah's King Asa, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam. He did not leave Jeroboam any survivors but destroyed his family according to the word of the LORD He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30This was because Jeroboam had provoked the LORD God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The rest of the events of Nadab's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel's Kings. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33In the third year of Judah's King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel and reigned in Tirzah 24 years. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He did what was evil in the LORD's sight and followed the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit. |
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