Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (1 Kings Chapter 1 to 22)

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1 Kings 15:17 (NLT) - 17 King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa’s territory in Judah.
 
1 Kings 15:18 (NLT) - 18 Asa responded by removing all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace. He sent it with some of his officials to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:
 
1 Kings 15:19 (NLT) - 19 “Let there be a treaty between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”
 
1 Kings 15:20 (NLT) - 20 Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa’s request and sent the commanders of his army to attack the towns of Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, and all the land of Naphtali.
 
1 Kings 15:21 (NLT) - 21 As soon as Baasha of Israel heard what was happening, he abandoned his project of fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
 
1 Kings 15:22 (NLT) - 22 Then King Asa sent an order throughout Judah, requiring that everyone, without exception, help to carry away the building stones and timbers that Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. Asa used these materials to fortify the town of Geba in Benjamin and the town of Mizpah.
 
1 Kings 15:23 (NLT) - 23 The rest of the events in Asa’s reign—the extent of his power, everything he did, and the names of the cities he built—are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. In his old age his feet became diseased.
 
1 Kings 15:24 (NLT) - 24 When Asa died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.Then Jehoshaphat, Asa’s son, became the next king.
 
1 Kings 15:25 (NLT)
Nadab son of Jeroboam began to rule in Israel in the second year of King Asa's reign in Judah. He reigned two years in Israel.
 
1 Kings 15:26 (NLT)
But he did what was evil in the LORDs sight and followed the example of his father, continuing the sims that Jeroboarn had led Israel to commit.
 
1 Kings 15:27 (NLT)
Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israeli army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon.
 
1 Kings 15:29 (NLT)

29 He immediately slaughtered all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the LORD had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh.
 
1 Kings 15:33 (NLT) - 33 Baasha son of Ahijah began to rule over all Israel in the third year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. Baasha reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.
 
1 Kings 15:34 (NLT) - 34 But he did what was evil in the LORD’s sight and followed the example of Jeroboam, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.
 
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