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1 Kings 15

1 Abiiám reigneth ouer Iudáh. 9 Aſá ſuccedeth in his roume 16 The battel betwene Aſá and Baaſha 24 Ie-hoſaphát ſuccedeth Aſá 25 Naadab ſucceedeth Ierobo-am 28 Baaſha killeth Nadáb.
1.ANd in the eightene yere of King * Ie-roboám the ſonne of Nebát, reigned Abiiám ouer Iudáh.
2.Thre yere reigned he in Ieruſalém, and his mothers name was Maacháh ye daugh-ter of a Abiſhalóm.
3.And he walked in all the ſinnes of his fa- ther, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfite with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.
4.But for Dauids ſake did ye Lord his God giue him a b light in Ieruſalém, and ſet vp his ſonne after him, and eſtabliſhed Ieruſalém,
5.Because Dauid did that which was right in the ſight of the Lord, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, * ſaue onely in the matter of Vriáh the Hittite.
6.And there was warre betwene Rehoboám and Ieroboám as long as he liued.
7.The reſt alſo of the actes of Abiiám, and all that he did, are they not writen in the * boke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudáh? there was alſo warre betwene Abiiám, and Ierobeám.
8.And Abiiám ſlept with his fathers, & they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: & Aſá his ſonne reigned in his ſteade.
9.* And in the twentie yere of Ieroboám King of Iſraél reigned Aſá ouer Iudáh.
10.He reigned in Ieruſalém one & fourtie yere, and his c mothers name was Maacháh, the daughter of Abiſhalóm.
11.And Aſá did right in ye eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.
12.And he toke away the Sodomites out of the land, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.
13.And he d put downe Maacháh his mother alſo from her eſtate, becauſe ſhe had made an idole in a groue: & Aſá deſtroyed her idoles, & burnt thē by the broke Kidrón.
14.But they put not downe the hie places. Neuertheles Aſas heart was e vpright with the Lord all his dayes.
15.Alſo he broght in the holy veſſels of his father, & the things that he had dedicate vnto the houſe of the Lord, ſiluer, & golde and veſſels.
16.¶ And there was warre betwene Aſá and Baaſhá King of Iſraél all their dayes.
17.Then Baaſhá King of Iſraél went vp againſt Iudáh, and buylt f Ramáh, ſo that he wolde let none go out or in to Aſá King of Iudáh.
18.Then Aſá toke all the ſiluer & the gold ye was left in the treaſures of the houſe of the Lord, and the treaſures of the Kings houſe, and deliuered them into the hands of his ſeruants, and King Aſá ſent them to * Ben-hadád the ſonne of Tabrimón, the ſonne of Hezióh King of " Arám that dwelt at Damaſcus, ſaying,
19.There is a couenant betwene me and thee, and betwene my father and thy father: beholde, I haue ſent vnto thee a preſent of ſiluer, and golde: come, breake thy couenant with Baaſhá King of Iſraél, that he may g departe from me.
20.So Ben-hadád hearkened vnto King Aſá, and ſent the captaines of the hoſtes, which he had againſt the cities of Iſraél, and ſmote Iión, and Dan, and Abélbeth-maacháh, and all Cinneróth, with all the land of Naphtalí.
21.And when Baaſhá heard thereof, he left buylding of Ramáh, and dwelt in Tirzáh.
22.Then King Aſá " aſſembled all Iudáh, " none excepted. & they toke the ſtones of Ramáh, & the timber thereof, wherewith Baaſhá had buylt, & King Aſá buylt with them Géba of Beniamín and Mizpáh.
23.And the reſt of all the actes of Aſá, and all his might and all that he did, and the cities which he buylt, are they not write in the boke of the Chronicles of ye Kings of Iudáh? but in his olde age he was diſeaſed in his h feete.
24.And Aſá ſlept with his fathers, and was buryed with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father. And Iehoſhaphat his ſonne reigned in his ſteade.
25.And Nadáb the ſonne of Ieroboám began to reigne ouer Iſraél the ſecóde yere of Aſá King of Iudáh, and reigned ouer Iſraél two yere.
26.And he did euil in the ſight of the Lord, walking in the way of his father, & in his ſinne wherewith he made Iſraél to ſinne.
27.And Baaſhá the ſonne of Ahiiah of the houſe of Iſſachár conſpired againſt him, & Baaſhá ſlewe him at Gibbethón, which belonged to the Philiſtims: for Nadab & all Iſraél laied ſiege to Gibbethón.
28.Euen in the third yere of Aſá King of Iudáh did Baaſhá ſlay him, and reigned in his ſteade.
29.And when he was King, he k ſmote all the houſe of Ieroboam, he left non aliue to Ieroboám, vntil he had deſtroyed him, according to the * worde of ye Lord which he ſpake by his ſeruant Ahiiah the Shilonite,
30.Because of ye ſinnes of Ieroboam which he committed, and wherewith he made Iſraél to ſinne, by his l prouocation, wherewith he prouoked the Lord God of Iſraél.
31.And the reſidue of the actes of Nadáb and all that he did, are they not writen in the boke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iſraél?
32.And there was warre betwene Aſá & Baaſhá King of Iſraél, all their dayes.
33.In the third yere of Aſá King of Iudáh, began Baaſhá the ſonne of Ahiiah to reigne ouer all Iſraél in m Tirzáh, and reigned foure and twentie yeres.
34.And he did euil in the ſight of the Lord, walking in the way of Ieroboám, & in his ſinne, wherewith he made Iſraél to ſinne.

Notes

1:*.
2. Chro. 13, 1.
2:a.
Some thinke that this was Abſalóm Sa-lomons ſonne.
4:b.
Meaning, a ſonne to reigne ouer Iudáh.
5:*.
2 Sam 11.4 & 12.9.
7:*.
2 Chro. 13.3.
9:*.
2 Chro. 14.1.
10:c.
That is, his grand mother: as Dauid is oftimes called father of thē, whoſe grand father he was.
13:d.
Nether kindred nor autoritie oght to be regarded, when they blaſpheme God & become idolaters, but muſt be puniſhed
14:e.
For in that that he ſuffred them to worſhip God in other places, then he had appointed, it came of ignorance and not of malice.
17:f.
Of the ſame purpoſe that Ieroboám did becauſe the people ſhulde not go vp to Ieruſalém leſt they ſhulde followe Aſá.
18:*.
2 Chro 16.2.
18:".
Or, Syria.
19:g.
And vexe me no longer.
22:".
Or, made a proclamation
22:".
Ebr. none innocent.
23:h.
He had the goute & put his truſt rather in phiſitians thē in the Lord, 2 Chro 16.12. 1 His great gráde father.
29:k.
So God ſtirred vp one tyrant to puniſh the wickednes of another
29:*.
Chap 14.10.
30:l.
BY cauſing ye people to commit idolatrie with his calues, & ſo prouoking God to angre.
33:m.
Which was ye place where the Kings of Iſraél remained.