1 Kings 15
15
Abijah King of Judah
1Abijah became king of Judah. It was in the 18th year of Jeroboam’s rule over Israel. Jeroboam was the son of Nebat. 2Abijah ruled in Jerusalem for three years. His mother’s name was Maakah. She was Abishalom’s daughter.
3Abijah committed all the sins his father had committed before him. Abijah didn’t obey the Lord his God with all his heart. He didn’t do what King David had done. 4But the Lord still kept the lamp of Abijah’s kingdom burning brightly in Jerusalem. He did it by giving him a son to be the next king after him. He also did it by making Jerusalem strong. The Lord did those things because of David. 5David had done what was right in the sight of the Lord. He had kept all the Lord’s commands. He had obeyed them all the days of his life. But he hadn’t obeyed the Lord in the case of Uriah, the Hittite.
6There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam all through Abijah’s life. 7The other events of Abijah’s rule are written down. Everything he did is written down. All these things are written in the official records of the kings of Judah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 8Abijah joined the members of his family who had already died. He was buried in the City of David. Abijah’s son Asa became the next king after him.
Asa King of Judah
9Asa became king of Judah. It was in the 20th year that Jeroboam was king of Israel. 10Asa ruled in Jerusalem for 41 years. His grandmother’s name was Maakah. She was Abishalom’s daughter.
11Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord. That’s what King David had done. 12Asa threw out of the land the male prostitutes who were at the temples. He got rid of all the statues of gods made by his people of long ago. 13He even removed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother. That’s because she had made a pole used to worship the female god named Asherah. The Lord hated it. So Asa cut it down. He burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14Asa didn’t remove the high places from Israel. But he committed his whole life completely to the Lord. 15He and his father had set apart silver, gold and other things to the Lord. Asa brought them into the Lord’s temple.
16There was war between Asa and Baasha, the king of Israel. It lasted the whole time they were kings. 17Baasha was king of Israel. He marched out against Judah. Baasha built up the walls of Ramah. He did it to keep people from leaving or entering the territory of Asa, the king of Judah.
18Asa took all the silver and gold left among the treasures of the Lord’s temple and his own palace. He put his officials in charge of it. He sent the officials to Ben-Hadad. Ben-Hadad was king of Aram. He was ruling in Damascus. He was the son of Tabrimmon and the grandson of Hezion. 19“Let’s make a peace treaty between us,” Asa said. “My father and your father had made a peace treaty between them. Now I’m sending you a gift of silver and gold. So break your treaty with Baasha, the king of Israel. Then he’ll go back home.”
20Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa. He sent his army commanders against the towns of Israel. He captured Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maakah and the whole area of Kinnereth in addition to Naphtali. 21Baasha heard about it. So he stopped building up Ramah. He went back home to Tirzah. 22Then King Asa gave an order to all the men of Judah. Everyone was required to help. They carried away from Ramah the stones and wood Baasha had been using there. King Asa used them to build up Geba in the territory of Benjamin. He also used them to build up Mizpah.
23All the other events of Asa’s rule are written down, including the cities he built. Everything he did is written in the official records of the kings of Judah. But when Asa became old, his feet began to give him trouble. 24He joined the members of his family who had already died. He was buried in his family tomb. It was in the city of King David. Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became the next king after him.
Nadab King of Israel
25Nadab became king of Israel. It was in the second year that Asa was king of Judah. Nadab ruled over Israel for two years. He was the son of Jeroboam. 26Nadab did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He lived the way his father had lived. He committed the same sin his father Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
27Baasha was from the tribe of Issachar. He was the son of Ahijah. Baasha made plans against Nadab and struck him down at Gibbethon. It was a Philistine town. Baasha struck him down while Nadab and all the men of Israel were getting ready to attack Gibbethon. 28He killed Nadab in the third year that Asa was king of Judah. Baasha became the next king after Nadab.
29As soon as Baasha became king, he killed Jeroboam’s whole family. He didn’t leave any of them alive. He destroyed every one of them. He did what the Lord had said would happen. The Lord had spoken that message through his servant Ahijah from Shiloh. 30The Lord judged Jeroboam’s family because of the sins Jeroboam had committed. He had also caused Israel to commit those same sins. He had made the Lord very angry. The Lord is the God of Israel.
31The other events of Nadab’s rule are written down. Everything he did is written in the official records of the kings of Israel. 32There was war between Asa and Baasha, the king of Israel. It lasted the whole time they were kings.
Baasha King of Israel
33Baasha became king of Israel in Tirzah. It was in the third year that Asa was king of Judah. Baasha ruled for 24 years. He was the son of Ahijah. 34Baasha did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He lived the way Jeroboam had lived. He committed the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
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1 Kings 15
15
Judah’s King Abijam
1In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah, 2and he reigned three years in Jerusalem.#2Ch 13:1–2 His mother’s name was Maacah#1Kg 15:10,13; 2Ch 13:2 daughter#15:2 Possibly granddaughter, also in v. 10; 2Ch 13:2 of Abishalom.
3Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed,#1Kg 14:21–22 and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.#1Kg 9:4; 11:4 4But for the sake of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp#15:4 Or dominion in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.#2Sm 21:17; 1Kg 11:36; 2Ch 21:7 5For David did what was right in the Lord’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life,#1Kg 9:4; 14:8 except in the matter of Uriah#2Sm 11:3,15–17; 12:9–10 the Hethite.
6There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam’s life.#1Kg 14:30; 2Ch 12:15 7The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.#1Kg 14:29 There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.#2Ch 13:4–20 8Abijam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.#1Kg 14:31; 2Ch 14:1 His son Asa became king in his place.#1Kg 14:31; 2Ch 14–16
Judah’s King Asa
9In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam,#1Kg 15:1 Asa became king of Judah, 10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s#15:10 Lit mother’s name was Maacah#1Kg 15:2 daughter of Abishalom.
11Asa did what was right in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.#1Kg 9:4–5; 2Ch 14:2 12He banished the male cult prostitutes#Dt 23:17; 1Kg 14:24 from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.#1Kg 11:7; 14:23; 2Ch 14:3,5 13He also#2Ch 15:16–18 removed his grandmother#15:13 Lit mother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it#Ex 32:20 in the Kidron Valley.#2Kg 23:6 14The high places were not taken away,#1Kg 22:43 but Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his entire life.#1Kg 8:61; 15:3 15He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.#1Kg 7:51
16There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.#1Kg 15:32 17Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah.#2Ch 16:1–6 He built Ramah#Jos 18:25 in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah. 18So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple#1Kg 14:26 and the treasuries of the royal palace and gave it to his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad#1Kg 20:1 son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus,#1Kg 11:23–24 saying, 19“There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father.#1Kg 5:12; 2Ch 16:7 Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel#1Kg 15:27–28 so that he will withdraw from me.”
20Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon,#2Kg 15:29 Dan,#Jdg 18:29; 1Kg 12:29 Abel-beth-maacah,#2Sm 20:15; 2Kg 15:29 all Chinnereth,#Jos 11:2; 12:3 and the whole land of Naphtali.#Jos 19:32–39; 1Kg 20:34 21When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.#1Kg 14:17; 15:33; 16:8,15–18 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#Jos 18:24; 21:17 of Benjamin and Mizpah#Jos 11:3; 2Ch 16:6 with them.
23The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign,#2Ch 16:11–14 along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.#1Kg 14:29; 15:7 But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.#2Ch 16:12 24Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his ancestor David.#1Kg 14:31; 15:8 His son Jehoshaphat#1Kg 22:41–50 became king in his place.
Israel’s King Nadab
25Nadab son of Jeroboam#1Kg 14:20 became king over Israel in the second year of Judah’s King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years. 26Nadab did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.#1Kg 14:16; 15:30,34
27Then Baasha#1Kg 14:14; 15:16 son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon#Jos 19:44; 1Kg 16:15 of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon. 28In the third year of Judah’s King Asa,#1Kg 15:8–24; 2Ch 14–16 Baasha killed Nadab#1Kg 16:8–10 and reigned in his place.
29When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam.#1Kg 13:34 He did not leave Jeroboam any survivors but#15:29 Lit Jeroboam anyone breathing until he destroyed his family according to the word of the Lord he had spoken through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.#1Kg 14:10 30This was because Jeroboam had angered#15:30 Lit provoked in the provocation of the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.#1Kg 14:7–9
31The rest of the events of Nadab’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.#1Kg 14:19; 16:5 32There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.#1Kg 15:16
Israel’s King Baasha
33In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah#1Kg 15:21 twenty-four years. 34He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.#1Kg 14:16
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