1.Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
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.
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.
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.
14.But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
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,
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.
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.
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.