1 Kings 15:21-29

²¹When Baasha heard about this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and retreated to Tirzah.

²²Then King Asa issued a proclamation throughout all Judah, with no exception. The people obeyed, and carried away the stones and the timbers Baasha had used for building up Ramah. King Asa used these building materials to strengthen Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.

²³The rest of what happened in Asa's reign, all his achievements, everything that he did, and the towns he built, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. But when he grew old he had disease in his feet.

²⁴Asa died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king.

²⁵Nadab, son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in the second year of the reign of King Asa of Judah. He reigned in Israel for two years.

²⁶He did what was evil in the Lord's sight. He followed the ways of his father and committed the same sins his father had made Israel commit.

²⁷Baasha, son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar, plotted a rebellion against him. Baasha murdered Nadab at the Philistine town of Gibbethon while Nadab and the whole Israelite army were besieging it.

²⁸Baasha killed Nadab and took over as king in the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah.

²⁹As soon as he became king he killed all the rest of Jeroboam's family. He did not leave any of Jeroboam's descendants alive—he destroyed them all, as the Lord had said through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.