1 Kings 15

1Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:31 · 2Chr 13:1

2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:13 · 2Chr 11:20 · 2Chr 13:2

3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:14 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 11:33 · 1Ki 14:21 · 2Ki 20:3 · 2Chr 25:2 · +2 more

4Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 19:29 · Gen 26:5 · Deut 4:37 · 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 21:17 · +20 more

5because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.Cross-references: 2Sam 11:3 · 2Sam 11:15 · 2Sam 12:9 · 1Ki 9:4 · 1Ki 14:8 · 1Ki 15:3 · +7 more

6Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:30

7The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:29 · 2Chr 13:2

8Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:1 · 1Ki 14:31 · 1Chr 3:9 · 2Chr 14:1 · Matt 1:7

9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

10He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:2 · 1Ki 15:13 · 2Chr 11:20 · 2Chr 13:2

11Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:3 · 2Chr 14:2 · 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 15:17 · 2Chr 16:7

12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:7 · 1Ki 14:23 · 1Ki 15:3 · 1Ki 22:46 · 2Chr 14:2 · Ezek 20:18 · +4 more

13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.Cross-references: Ex 32:20 · Lev 26:30 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 9:21 · Deut 13:6 · Deut 33:9 · +16 more

14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:61 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 15:3 · 1Ki 22:43 · 2Ki 12:3 · 2Ki 14:4 · +6 more

15He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:51 · 1Chr 26:26 · 2Chr 14:13 · 2Chr 15:18

16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:30 · 1Ki 15:6 · 1Ki 15:32 · 2Chr 16:1

17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.Cross-references: Josh 18:25 · 1Sam 15:34 · 1Ki 12:27 · 1Ki 15:21 · 1Ki 15:27 · 2Chr 11:13 · +2 more

18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · Gen 15:2 · 1Ki 11:23 · 1Ki 14:26 · 1Ki 15:15 · 1Ki 20:1 · +8 more

19“Let there be a treaty between me and you, like that between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”Cross-references: 2Sam 21:2 · 2Chr 16:3 · 2Chr 16:7 · 2Chr 19:2 · Isa 31:1 · Ezek 17:13 · +2 more

20Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.Cross-references: Gen 14:14 · Josh 11:2 · Josh 12:3 · Judg 18:29 · 2Sam 20:14 · 1Ki 12:29 · +1 more

21When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:17 · 1Ki 15:17 · 1Ki 16:15 · 2Chr 16:5 · Song 6:4

22Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and King Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.Cross-references: Josh 18:24 · Josh 18:26 · Josh 21:17 · 1Sam 7:5 · 2Chr 16:6 · Jer 40:6 · +1 more

23Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:29 · 1Ki 15:7 · 2Chr 16:11 · Ps 90:10

24Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:41 · 2Chr 17:1 · Matt 1:8

25Nadab 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:12 · 1Ki 14:20

26He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 2:24 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 14:16 · +14 more

27Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.Cross-references: Josh 19:44 · Josh 21:23 · 1Ki 14:14 · 1Ki 15:16 · 1Ki 16:9 · 1Ki 16:15 · +2 more

28Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him and reigned in his place.Cross-references: Deut 32:35

29As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · 2Ki 9:7 · 2Ki 9:36 · 2Ki 10:10 · 2Ki 10:31 · 2Ki 19:25

30for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 14:22 · 1Ki 15:26

31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 16:5 · 1Ki 16:14 · 1Ki 16:20 · 1Ki 16:27

32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:16

33In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:8

34He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:26 · Isa 1:4