Asa Rules Over Judah |
1 Kings 15:1-34 1 Kings [in Smaller Chunks] |
In the 18th year king Jeroboam, [Nebat’s] son [ruled,] Abijam [a.k.a. Abijah] [ruled] over Judah. [Abijam ruled for] 3 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maachah, [Absalom’s] daughter. |
He walked in all the sins of his father had done before him & [Abiajam’s] heart wasn’t perfect with the Lord his God, [like] the heart of David his [forefather]. [But] for David’s sake, the Lord his God [gave] him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him & to establish Jerusalem. |
Because David did [what] was right in the eyes of the Lord & didn’t turn [away] from anything the [Lord God] commanded him all his life, [except] only in the matter of Uriah, the Hittite [when David was intimate with Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife]. |
There was war between Rehoboam [Solomon’s son] & Jeroboam [Nebat’s son] all [their lives]. [Aren’t] the rest of [Abijam’s actions] & all he did written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? |
There was war between Abijam & Jeroboam. Abijam [died] & slept with his [forefathers] & they buried him in the city of David. Asa [Abijam’s] son [ruled] in his [place]. |
In the 20th year Jeroboam [ruled as Israel’s] king, Asa [ruled] over Judah. [Asa ruled] 41 years in Jerusalem. His [grandmother’s] name was Maacha, the daughter of [Absalom]. |
Asa did [what] was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his [forefather]. He took away the sodomites [from] the land & removed all the idols [false gods] his father had made. He even removed his [grandmother,] Maachan, from being queen, because she had made an idol [false god] in a grove [place of worshiping the false gods]. |
Asa destroyed her idol [false god] & burnt it by the Brook [of] Kidron. But the high places [where they worshiped false gods] weren’t removed. [But] Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his [life]. |
He brought the things his father had dedicated & the things that [he] dedicated, into the [Lord’s] house: [of] silver, gold & [various dedicated articles]. There was war between Asa [king of Judah] & Baasha, [Israel’s] king, all their [lives]. |
Baasha, [Israel’s] king, went up against Judah & built [up] Ramah, [so he wouldn’t allow anyone] to go out or come into Asa, [Judah’s] king. |
Then, Asa took all the silver & gold that were left in the treasures of the [Lord’s] house & the treasures [from] the king’s house & [put] them into the hands of his servants. |
King Asa sent them to BenHadad, [Tabrimon’s] son, [who was] the son of Hezion, [Syria’s] king, [who lived] in Damascus, saying, there is a [alliance] between me & you & between my father & your father. |
[Look,] I have sent you a present of silver & gold. Come & break your [alliance] with Baasha, [Israel’s] king, [so] he may depart from me. |
Ben Hadad [listened] to king Asa & sent [army] captains against the cities of Israel & [attacked] Ijon, Dan, AbelBethMaacha, all [of] Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. |
When Baasha heard [of this,] he [stopped] building Ramah & [stayed] in Tirzah. Then, king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah. |
[No one] was exempted & they took away the stones & timber of Ramah, Baasha [had used to build & king Asa built Geba & Mizpah with them, [in the land of the tribes of] Benjamin. |
[Aren’t] the rest of all [Asa’s actions,] all his might, all he did & all the cities he built written in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? [But] in the time of his old age, he was diseased in his feet. |
Asa [died] & slept with his [forefathers]. He was buried with his [forefathers] in the city of David, his [forefather]. Jehoshaphat, his son, [ruled] in his [place]. Nadab, [Jeroboam’s] son, began to [rule] over Israel in the 2nd year Asa [ruled as] king of Judah. |
[Nadab ruled] over Israel [for] 2 years. He did [wickedly] in the sight of the Lord [God] & walked in the [ways] of his father [by worshiping false gods] & making Israel sin [by worshiping false gods, instead of the Lord God]. |
Baasha, [Ahijah’s] son, [from] the house of Issachar, conspired against [Nadab] & Baasha [killed Nadab while he] & all [of] Israel [attacked] Gibbethon, [that] belonged to the Philistines. |
Even [during Asa’s] 3rd year [as Israel’s] king, Baasha [killed] him & [ruled] in his [place]. When [Baasha ruled,] it [happened] that he [killed] all the house of Jeroboam. |
[Baasha] left [none alive,] until he destroyed them, according to what the Lord [God] had [said] by His servant, Ahijah, the Shilonite, because of the sins of Jeroboam |
[when Jeroboam made 2 false gods, gold calves, for the Israelites to worship, instead of going to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord God, plus Jeroboam made places for the Israelites to worship the false gods]; |
And [Jeroboam] made Israel sin & he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger [by these sins]. [Aren’t] the rest of [Nadab’s actions] & all he did, written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? |
There was a war between Asa & Baasha, [Israel’s] king, all their [lives]. [During] Asa’s 3rd year [as Judah’s] king, Baasha, [Ahijah’s] son, began to [rule] over all [of] Israel in Tirzah, [for] 24 years. |
[Baasha did wickedly] in the sight of the Lord [God,] & walked in the [ways] of Jeroboam & [making] Israel sin [by worshiping the false gods Jeroboam made]. |