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And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And his son Abijam became king in his place.

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David.

But for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,

because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and did not deviate from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

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

And Abijam lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Asa became king in his place.

He reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Now Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like his father David.

He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

And even his mother Maacah, he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

But the high places were not eliminated; nevertheless Asa's heart was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.

And he brought into the house of the LORD the holy gifts of his father and his own holy gifts: silver, gold, and valuable utensils.

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and handed it over to his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,

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

Now as for the 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? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

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

He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and in his sin into which he misled Israel.

So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

And as soon as he was king, he struck and killed all the household of Jeroboam. He did not leave Jeroboam any persons alive, but kept killing until he had eliminated them, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,