tree.
[24] And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the
nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
[25] And it came to pass in the fifth year
of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
[26] And he took away the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he
took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
[27] And king Rehoboam made in their stead
brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the
king's house.
[28] And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare
them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
[29] Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and
all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
[30] And there
was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
[31] And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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[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 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 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,