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Rehoboam slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam succeeded him.

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

Nevertheless for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord , and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

The war begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued all the days of his life.

Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. Then his son Asa succeeded him.

he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord , as his father David had done.

He put away the male temple prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

He also removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah; Asa cut down her image and burned it at the Wadi Kidron.

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his days.

He brought into the house of the Lord the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts—silver, gold, and utensils.

Then 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 gave them into the hands of his servants. King Asa sent them to King Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion of Aram, who resided in Damascus, saying,

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his power, all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Then Asa slept with his ancestors, and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his father David; his son Jehoshaphat succeeded him.

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , walking in the way of his ancestor and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.

As soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam; he left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite—

therefore, I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.