1 Kings 15
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a In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.
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He reigned three years in Jerusalem. b His mother's name was c Maachah the granddaughter of d Abishalom.
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And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; e his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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Nevertheless f for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;
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because David g did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, h except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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i And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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j Now 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.
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k So Abijam rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place.
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In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.
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And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maachah the granddaughter of Abishalom.
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l Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did his father David.
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m And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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Also he removed n Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and o burned it by the Brook Kidron.
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p But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa's q heart was loyal to the LORD all his days.
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He also brought into the house of the LORD the things which his father r had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.
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Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And s Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built t Ramah, u that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
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Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to v BenHadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in w Damascus, saying,
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"Let there be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me."
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So BenHadad heeded King Asa, and x sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked y Ijon, z Dan, a Abel Beth Maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in b Tirzah.
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c Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. And they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them King Asa built d Geba of Benjamin, and e Mizpah.
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The rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, 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? But f in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
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So Asa rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. g Then h Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
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Now i Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in j his sin by which he had made Israel sin.
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k Then Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha killed him at l Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
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Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
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And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to m the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
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n because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
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Now 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?
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o And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.
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He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in p the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.
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2 Chronicles 13:1
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.
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2 Chronicles 11:20 - 22
After her he took Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
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2 Chronicles 13:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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2 Chronicles 11:21
Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
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1 Kings 11:4
For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
Psalms 119:80
Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes, That I may not be ashamed.
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2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
1 Kings 11:32
(but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
1 Kings 11:36
And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.
2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
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1 Kings 9:4
Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments.
1 Kings 14:8
And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes.
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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2 Samuel 11:3
So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, " Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:15 - 17
And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.
2 Samuel 12:10
'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
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1 Kings 14:30
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
2 Chronicles 12:15
The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
2 Chronicles 13:20
So Jeroboam did not recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD struck him, and he died.
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2 Chronicles 13:2 - 22
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
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2 Chronicles 14:1
So Abijah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years.
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2 Chronicles 14:2
Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
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Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 14:24
And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46
And the rest of the perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.
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2 Chronicles 15:16 - 18
Also he removed Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah; and Asa cut down her obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.
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Exodus 32:20
Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
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1 Kings 3:2
Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
1 Kings 22:43
And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the LORD. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:18
He also brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.
1 Kings 8:61
"Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day."
1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
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1 Kings 7:51
So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 16:1 - 6
In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth.
1 Kings 15:21
Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in Tirzah.
1 Kings 15:22
Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. And they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
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1 Kings 12:26 - 29
And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom may return to the house of David:
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2 Kings 12:17
Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and in the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 16:2
Then Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to BenHadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying.
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Genesis 14:15
He divided his forces against them by night, and he and his servants attacked them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
1 Kings 11:23
And God raised up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who had fled from his lord, Hadadezer king of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:24
So he gathered men to him and became captain over a band of raiders, when David killed those of Zobah. And they went to Damascus and dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus.
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1 Kings 20:1
Now BenHadad the king of Syria gathered all his forces together; thirty-two kings were with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
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Judges 18:29
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel. However, the name of the city formerly was Laish.
1 Kings 12:29
And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
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2 Samuel 20:14
And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maachah and all the Berites. So they were gathered together and also went after Sheba.
2 Samuel 20:15
Then they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maachah; and they cast up a siege mound against the city, and it stood by the rampart. And all the people who were with Joab battered the wall to throw it down.
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1 Kings 14:17
Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
1 Kings 16:15 - 18
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri had reigned in Tirzah seven days. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
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2 Chronicles 16:6
Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.
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Joshua 21:17
And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its common-land, Geba with its common-land.
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Joshua 18:26
Mizpah, Chephirah, Mozah.
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2 Chronicles 16:11 - 14
Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
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2 Chronicles 17:1
Then Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.
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1 Kings 22:41 - 44
Jehoshaphat the son of Asa had become king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Matthew 1:8
Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.
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1 Kings 14:20
The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.
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1 Kings 12:28 - 33
Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!
1 Kings 14:16
"And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin."
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1 Kings 14:14
Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now!
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Joshua 19:44
Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath.
Joshua 21:23
And from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its common-land, Gibbethon with its common-land.
1 Kings 16:15
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri had reigned in Tirzah seven days. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
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1 Kings 14:10 - 14
Therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
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1 Kings 14:9
But you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back -
1 Kings 14:16
"And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin."
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1 Kings 15:16
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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1 Kings 13:33
After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
1 Kings 14:16
"And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin."
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