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And all Israel buried him and had sorrow for him, as the Word of God was spoken through His servant Ahijah the man who spoke for God.

Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. Then he died and his son Nadab ruled in his place.

Now Solomon's son Rehoboam ruled in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. And he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the families of Israel to put His name there. The name of Rehoboam's mother was Naamah of Ammon.

Rehoboam died and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah of Ammon. And his son Abijam became king in his place.

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

And he walked in all the sins which his father had done before him. He was not faithful to the Lord with all his heart, like the heart of his father David.

But the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem because of David. He gave him a son to rule after him and to keep Jerusalem strong.

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He did not turn away from anything the Lord told him to do all the days of his life, except in what happened with Uriah the Hittite.

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

Abijam died and they buried him in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.

He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.

He sent away the men from the land who sold the use of their bodies in their religion. He took away all the false gods his father had made.

He stopped his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made a hated object of the false goddess Asherah. And Asa cut down her hated object and burned it at the river Kidron.

The high places were not taken away. But Asa was faithful to the Lord with all his heart for all his days.

He brought into the house of the Lord the holy things of his father and his own holy things, silver, gold, and holy objects.

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the storerooms of the Lord's house and the king's house, and gave them to his servants. King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus. Asa said,

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He destroyed Ijon, Dan, Abel-bethmaacah, all Chinneroth, and all the land of Naphtali.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his strength and all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease in his feet.

Asa died and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. His son Jehoshaphat ruled in his place.