1 ¶ 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. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

3 And he was guilty of all the sins which his father before him had done: and his heart was not blameless with the LORD his God, as the heart of his grandfather David.

4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the records of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.

9 ¶ And Asa began to reign over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel.

10 And he reigned in Jerusalem for forty-one years. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

12 And he drove the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And he also removed his mother Maachah from her position as queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burned it by the brook Kidron.

14 But the hilltop shrines were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was blameless with the LORD all his days.

15 And he brought the things that his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, gold, and vessels.

16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

17 And Baasha the king of Israel went up against Judah, and fortified Ramah, so that he might prevent anyone from going out to or coming in from Asa king of Judah.

18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and delivered them into the hands of his servants: then king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,

19 Let there be a treaty between you and I, as between my father and your father: look, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he may withdraw from me.

20 So Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the commanders of the armies that he had against the cities of Israel, and captured Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with the land of Naphtali.

21 And when Baasha heard about it, he stopped fortifying Ramah, and went back to Tirzah.

22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; no one was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timbers, that Baasha had used in building; and with them king Asa fortified Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

23 The rest of the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the records of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless 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 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

25 ¶ Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel during the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel for two years.

26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.

27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

28 Baasha killed Nadab during the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

29 And when he became king, he killed the entire family of Jeroboam; he did not leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed his family, according to the word of the LORD, which he had spoken by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

30 Because of the sins that Jeroboam committed, by which he made Israel sin, and by which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the records of the kings of Israel?

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

33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned for twenty-four years.

34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.