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¹ And in the eighteene yere of King Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, reigned Abiiam ouer Iudah.

² Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter ofSome think that this was Absalom Solomon's son.Abishalom.

³ And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.

⁴ Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him aMeaning, a son to reign over Judah.lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

⁵ Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hittite.

⁶ And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam as long as he liued.

⁷ The rest also of the actes of Abiiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? There was also warre betweene Abiiam, and Ieroboam.

⁸ And Abiiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade.

⁹ And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

¹⁰ And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And hisThat is, his grandmother, as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren.mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

¹¹ And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

¹² And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

¹³ And also Maachah his mother, even her heNeither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters, but must be punished.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.

¹⁴ But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart wasThough he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.perfect with the LORD all his days.

¹⁵ Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, & the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

¹⁶ And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

¹⁷ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and builtFor the same reason that Jeroboam did, because the people should not go up to Jerusalem, least they follow Asa.Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

¹⁸ Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, & the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

¹⁹ [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he mayAnd vex me no longer.depart from me.

²⁰ So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, & all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

²¹ And when Baasha heard thereof, hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

²² Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted; they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, & King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

²³ The 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 hisHe had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord, (2Ch_16:12).feet.

²⁴ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David hisHis great-grandfather.father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

²⁵ And Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began to reigne ouer Israel the second yere of Asa King of Iudah, and reigned ouer Israel two yeere.

²⁶ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, walking in the way of his father, and in his sinne wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

²⁷ And Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of ye house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha slue him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistims: for Nadab and all Israel layde siege to Gibbethon.

²⁸ Euen in the third yeere of Asa King of Iudah did Baasha slay him, & reigned in his steade.

²⁹ And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] heSo God stirred up one tyrant to punish the wickedness of another.smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

³⁰ Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by hisBy causing the people to commit idolatry with his calves, and so provoking God to anger.provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

³¹ And the residue of the actes of Nadab, & all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

³² And there was warre betweene Asa & Baasha King of Israel, all their dayes.

³³ In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel inWhich was the place where the kings of Israel remained.Tirzah, twenty and four years.

³⁴ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, walking in the way of Ieroboam, & in his sinne, wherewith he made Israel to sinne.