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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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand
of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, 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 Ben- hadad 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 Abel-beth-maachah, 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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
,
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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