1 Kings 15:9-25

⁹And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

¹⁰He reigned in Ierusalem one and fourtie yeere, and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.

¹¹And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

¹²And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

¹³And he put downe Maachah his mother also from her estate, because shee had made an idole in a groue: and Asa destroyed her idoles, and burnt them by the brooke Kidron.

¹⁴But they put not downe the hie places. Neuertheles Asas heart was vpright with the Lord all his dayes.

¹⁵Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, and the things that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

¹⁶And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

¹⁷Then Baasha king of Israel went vp against Iudah, and buylt Ramah, so that he woulde let none go out or in to Asa King of Iudah.

¹⁸Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

¹⁹There is a couenant betweene me and thee, and betweene my father and thy father: behold, I haue sent vnto thee a present of siluer and golde: come, breake thy couenant with Baasha King of Israel, that he may depart from me.

²⁰So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

²¹And when Baasha heard thereof, hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

²²Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted. and they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, and King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

²³And the rest of all the actes of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he buylt, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? but in his olde age he was diseased in his feete.

²⁴And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father. And Iehoshaphat his sonne reigned in his steade.

²⁵And Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began to reigne ouer Israel the second yere of Asa King of Iudah, and reigned ouer Israel two yeere.