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

So Abijam rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place.

And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maachah the granddaughter of Abishalom.

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did his father David.

And he banished the perverted persons [fn] from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Also he removed Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. [fn] And Asa cut down her obscene image and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa's heart was loyal to the LORD all his days.

He also brought into the house of the LORD the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.

Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries 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 Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

The rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, 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.

So Asa rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. Then Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.

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

And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.

surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

So Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. Then Elah his son reigned in his place.