1 Kings 15

About 1 Kings 1 Kings follows Solomon's reign and temple, then the split of the kingdom and the prophet Elijah.

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.Selected1 Kings 15:1Ask

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.Selected1 Kings 15:2Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:3Ask

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:Selected1 Kings 15:4Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:5Ask

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.Selected1 Kings 15:6Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:7Ask

And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.Selected1 Kings 15:8Ask

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.Selected1 Kings 15:9Ask

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.Selected1 Kings 15:10Ask

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.Selected1 Kings 15:11Ask

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.Selected1 Kings 15:12Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:13Ask

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.Selected1 Kings 15:14Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:15Ask

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.Selected1 Kings 15:16Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:17Ask

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,Selected1 Kings 15:18Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:19Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:20Ask

And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.Selected1 Kings 15:21Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:22Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:23Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:24Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:25Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:26Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:27Ask

Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.Selected1 Kings 15:28Ask

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:Selected1 Kings 15:29Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:30Ask

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?Selected1 Kings 15:31Ask

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.Selected1 Kings 15:32Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:33Ask

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.Selected1 Kings 15:34Ask

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