1 Kings 15

Abijam Reigns in Judah

1 w Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and x his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless, for David's sake the Lord his God gave him y a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, 5 because z David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, a except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 6 b Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 7 c 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? d And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 e And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.

Asa Reigns In Judah

9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, 10 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 11 f And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. 12 He put away the g male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed h all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 i He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and j burned it at the brook Kidron. 14 k But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, l the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days. 15 And m he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.

16 n And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 17 o Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and p built Ramah, q that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold r that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. s And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, t who lived in Damascus, saying, 19 "Let there be u a covenant 1 between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me." 20 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered v Ijon, w Dan, x Abel-beth-maacah, and all y Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. 21 And when Baasha heard of it, z he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in a Tirzah. 22 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built b Geba of Benjamin and c Mizpah. 23 d Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet. 24 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and e Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

Nadab Reigns in Israel

25 f 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 what was evil in the sight of the Lord g and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin h which he made Israel to sin.

27 i Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at j Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. 28 So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place. 29 And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, k according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. 30 It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and h that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.

31 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? 32 l And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Baasha Reigns in Israel

33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years. 34 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord m and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:1 - 2
    In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:4
    For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
    1 Kings 15:14
    But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
    1 Kings 8:61
    Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:36
    Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:4
    And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
    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 like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes.
  5. Cross References
    2 Samuel 11:4
    So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ( Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
    2 Samuel 11:15
    In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.
    2 Samuel 12:9
    Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
  6. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:30
    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:22
    The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
  8. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:2 - 20
    He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
  9. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 14:1
    Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 14:2
    And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
  11. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:24
    And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 15:8
    As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:13 - 15
    He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
    2 Chronicles 15:16 - 18
    Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 32:20
    He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:43
    He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
    2 Kings 12:3
    Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
    2 Kings 14:4
    But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
  16. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:3
    And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:51
    Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:32
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:17 - 22
    Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
    2 Chronicles 16:1 - 6
    In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
  20. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:21 - 22
    And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.
  21. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:27
    If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
  22. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:26
    He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
  23. Cross References
    2 Kings 12:18
    Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.
  24. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:24
    And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
  25. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 16:7
    At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.
  26. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
  27. Cross References
    Judges 18:29
    And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
  28. Cross References
    2 Samuel 20:14
    And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
  29. Cross References
    Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
  30. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:17
    Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
  31. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:17
    Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
    1 Kings 16:6
    And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.
    1 Kings 16:9
    But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
  32. Cross References
    Joshua 21:17
    Then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands.
  33. Cross References
    Joshua 18:26
    Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah.
  34. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:23 - 24
    Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.
    2 Chronicles 16:11 - 14
    The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
  35. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 17:1
    Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.
    Matthew 1:8
    And Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.
  36. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:20
    And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
  37. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:34
    He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
  38. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:30
    It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.
    1 Kings 12:30
    Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.
    1 Kings 14:16
    And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
  39. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:14
    Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth.
  40. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:15
    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
    Joshua 19:44
    Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath.
    Joshua 21:23
    And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands.
  41. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:10
    Therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
    1 Kings 14:14
    Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth.
  42. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:26
    He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
  43. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:16
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  44. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:26
    He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
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