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captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that that he did, are they not written in the book of
kept watch before the gate of the king’s house. the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And
28 And when the king went into the house of there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.
the Lord, they whose office it was to go before 8 And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they
him, carried them: and afterwards they brought buried him in the city of David: and Asa, his
them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers. son, reigned in his stead.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all 9 So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king
that he did, behold they are written in the book of Israel, reigned Asa, king of Juda,
of the words of the days of the kings of Juda. 10 And he reigned one and forty years in
30 And there was war between Roboam and Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacha, the
Jeroboam always. daughter of Abessalom.
31 And Roboam slept with his fathers, and 11 And Asa did that which was right in the
was buried with them, in the city of David: and sight of the Lord, as did David, his father:
his mother’s name was Naama, an Ammonitess: 12 And he took away the effeminate out of the
and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead. land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which
his fathers had made.
13 Moreover, he also removed his mother,
Chapter 15 Maacha, from being the princess in the sacri-
fices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had
Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jer- consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den,
oboam, the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it
Juda. by the torrent Cedron:
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the 14 But the high places he did not take away.
name of his mother was Maacha, the daughter Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with
of Abessalom. the Lord all his days:
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, 15 And he brought in the things which his
which he had done before him: and his heart father had dedicated, and he had vowed, into the
was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.
the heart of David, his father. 16 And there was war between Asa, and
4 But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.
him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after 17 And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against
him, and to establish Jerusalem: Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out
5 Because David had done that which was or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.
right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that
aside from any thing that he commanded him, all remained in the treasures of the house of the
the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house,
the Hethite. and delivered it into the hands of his servants:
6 But there was war between Roboam and Jer- and sent them to Benadad, son of Tabremon,
oboam all the time of his life. the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in
7 And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all Damascus, saying: