Abijam and then Asa reign in Judah, and Asa does what is right, removing idols. In Israel Nadab succeeds Jeroboam and is killed by Baasha, who then destroys Jeroboam's family.
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah .
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Maachah , the daughter of Abishalom .
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father , which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God , as the heart of David his father .
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem , to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem :
5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD , and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life , save 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 chronicles 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 stead.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah .
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Maachah , the daughter of Abishalom .
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD , as did David his father .
12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land , and removed all the idols that his fathers had made .
13 And also Maachah his mother , even her he removed from being queen , because she had made an idol in a grove ; and Asa destroyed her idol , and burnt it by the brook Kidron .
14 But the high places were not removed : nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days .
15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated , and the things which himself had dedicated , into the house of the LORD , silver , and gold , and vessels .
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days .
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah , and built Ramah , that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah .
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD , and the treasures of the king's house , and delivered them into the hand of his servants : and king Asa sent them to Benhadad , the son of Tabrimon , the son of Hezion , king of Syria , that dwelt at Damascus , saying ,
19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father : behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold ; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel , that he may depart from me.
20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa , and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel , and smote Ijon , and Dan , and Abelbethmaachah , and all Cinneroth , with all the land of Naphtali .
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah , and dwelt in Tirzah .
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah ; none was exempted : and they took away the stones of Ramah , and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded ; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin , and Mizpah .
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa , and all his might , and 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 ? Nevertheless in the time of 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 stead.
25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah , and reigned over Israel 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 wherewith he made Israel to sin .
27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah , of the house of Issachar , conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon , which belonged to the Philistines ; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon .
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he reigned , that he smote all the house of Jeroboam ; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed , until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD , which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite :
30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned , and which he made Israel sin , by his provocation wherewith 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 chronicles 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 began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah , twenty and four years .
34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD , and walked in the way of Jeroboam , and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin .