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And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel Asa reigned over Judah.

And he reigned forty one years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like his father David.

And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers made.

And he also removed his mother Maachah from being queen, in that she made a horrid thing for Asherah. And Asa cut down her horrid thing and burned it by the torrent Kidron.

But they did not remove the high places. Only the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all the days.

And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated and his holy things, into the house of Jehovah, silver and gold and vessels.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out and coming in to Asa the king of Judah.

And Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into his servants' hand; and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son ofHezion, the king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

A treaty between you and me, between my father and your father! Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha the king of Israel, that he go up from me.

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent his army commanders against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

And it happened, when Baasha heard, he ceased building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

And King Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And King Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseasedin his feet.

And Asa lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.