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1 Kings 15

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  1. 1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.4 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 13:1–22, 1 Kings 14:31
  2. 2Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.8 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 13:2, 1 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 11:20–22
  3. 3And 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.25 cross-references: 1 Kings 11:4, Psalms 119:80, 1 Kings 3:14, 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 14:21–22
  4. 4Nevertheless 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:38 cross-references: 1 Kings 11:36, 2 Chronicles 21:7, 1 Kings 11:12, 1 Kings 11:32, Genesis 12:2
  5. 5Because 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.32 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:8, 2 Samuel 11:15–17, 1 Kings 15:3, 2 Samuel 12:9–10, Luke 1:6
  6. 6And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.5 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:30
  7. 7Now 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.4 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 13:2–22, 1 Kings 14:29
  8. 8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.9 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 14:1, 1 Kings 14:31, 1 Chronicles 3:9, Matthew 1:7–8, 1 Kings 14:1
  9. 9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
  10. 10And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.7 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:2, 2 Chronicles 13:2, 1 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 11:20–21
  11. 11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.10 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 14:2, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 2 Chronicles 16:7–10, 1 Kings 15:3, 2 Chronicles 14:11
  12. 12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.18 cross-references: 1 Kings 22:46, 1 Kings 14:23–24, 1 Kings 11:7–8, 2 Chronicles 14:2–5, Jude 1:7
  13. 13And 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.32 cross-references: Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21, 2 Samuel 15:23, 2 Kings 23:6, 2 Chronicles 15:15–19
  14. 14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.22 cross-references: 1 Kings 22:43, 1 Kings 8:61, 1 Kings 15:3, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 14:4
  15. 15And 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.7 cross-references: 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Chronicles 26:26–28, 2 Chronicles 15:18, 2 Chronicles 14:13
  16. 16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.9 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:32, 2 Chronicles 16:1–6, 1 Kings 15:6–7, 1 Kings 14:30
  17. 17And 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.11 cross-references: 1 Kings 12:27, Joshua 18:25, 2 Chronicles 16:1–6, 1 Kings 15:21–22, Jeremiah 31:15
  18. 18Then 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,25 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:26, 2 Kings 12:18, 1 Kings 15:15, 1 Kings 11:23–24, Genesis 14:15
  19. 19There 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.12 cross-references: 2 Samuel 21:2, Ezekiel 17:13–16, 2 Chronicles 16:7, Isaiah 31:1, Romans 3:8
  20. 20So 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.14 cross-references: 2 Kings 15:29, Judges 18:29, Joshua 11:2, 1 Kings 12:29, 2 Samuel 20:14–15
  21. 21And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.11 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:17, 1 Kings 16:15–18, 2 Chronicles 16:5, 1 Kings 15:17, Song of Solomon 6:4
  22. 22Then 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.12 cross-references: Joshua 21:17, Joshua 18:24, Joshua 18:26, 1 Samuel 7:5, 2 Chronicles 16:6
  23. 23The 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.10 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 16:11–14, 1 Kings 15:7–8, 1 Kings 14:29–31, Psalms 90:10
  24. 24And 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.11 cross-references: Matthew 1:8, 1 Kings 22:41–43, 2 Chronicles 17:1–9
  25. 25And 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.11 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:20, 1 Kings 14:12
  26. 26And 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.29 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Kings 12:28–33, 1 Kings 13:33–34
  27. 27And 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.16 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:14, Joshua 21:23, Joshua 19:44, 1 Kings 16:15, 1 Kings 16:9
  28. 28Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.7 cross-references: Deuteronomy 32:35
  29. 29And 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 Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:13 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:9–16, 2 Kings 19:25, 2 Kings 10:10–11, 2 Kings 9:36–37, 2 Kings 10:31
  30. 30Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.15 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 14:9–16
  31. 31Now 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?12 cross-references: 1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:20, 1 Kings 16:27, 1 Kings 16:14
  32. 32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.4 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:16
  33. 33In 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.6 cross-references: 1 Kings 16:8
  34. 34And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.14 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 12:28–29, Isaiah 1:4, 1 Kings 13:33–34

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People in 1 Kings 15

Asa, God, Judah, Baasha, Jeroboam, David, Abijah, Maachah, Nadab, Absalom, Ben-hadad, Ahijah, Nebat, Uriah, Rehoboam, Tabrimon, Hezion, Dan, Naphtali, Benjamin, Jehoshaphat, Issachar, Ahijah, Tirzah

Places in 1 Kings 15

Jerusalem, Ramah, Tirzah, Kidron, Damascus, Syria, Abel-beth-maacah, Chinneroth, Ijon, Dan, Naphtali, Geba, Gibbethon

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