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15:1 In the eighteenth <06240> <08083> year <08141> of the reign <04428> of Jeroboam <03379> son <01121> of Nebat <05028>, Abijah <038> became king <04427> over <05921> Judah <03063>. 15:2 He ruled <04427> for three <07969> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His mother <0517> was Maacah <04601>, the daughter <01323> of Abishalom <053>. 15:3 He followed <01980> all <03605> the sinful <02403> practices <06213> of his father <01> before <06440> him. He was <01961> not <03808> wholeheartedly devoted <08003> <03824> to <05973> the Lord <03068> his God <0430>, as his ancestor <01> David <01732> had been. 15:4 Nevertheless <03588> for <04616> David’s <01732> sake <04616> the Lord <03068> his God <0430> <05414> maintained his dynasty <05216> in Jerusalem <03389> by giving <06965> him a son <01121> to succeed <0310> him and by protecting <05975> Jerusalem <03389>. 15:5 He did <06213> this because <0834> David <01732> had done what he approved <05869> <03477> and had not <03808> disregarded <05493> any <03605> of his commandments <06680> his entire <03605> lifetime <02416> <03117>, except <07535> for the incident <01697> involving Uriah <0223> the Hittite <02850>. 15:6 Rehoboam <07346> and Jeroboam <03379> were <01961> continually at war <04421> with each other <0996> throughout <03605> Abijah’s lifetime <02416> <03117>. 15:7 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Abijah’s <038> reign, including all <03605> his <01992> accomplishments <06213>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Judah <03063>. Abijah <038> and Jeroboam <03379> had been <01961> at <0996> war <04421> with each <0996> other. 15:8 Abijah <038> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> in the city <05892> of David <01732>. His son <01121> Asa <0609> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>. 15:9 In the twentieth <06242> year <08141> of Jeroboam’s <03379> reign over <04428> Israel <03478>, Asa <0609> became <04427> the king <04428> of Judah <03063>. 15:10 He ruled <04427> for forty-one <0705> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. His grandmother <0517> was Maacah <04601> daughter <01323> of Abishalom <053>. 15:11 Asa <0609> did what the Lord <03068> approved <03477> like his ancestor <01> David <01732> had done <06213>. 15:12 He removed <05674> the male cultic prostitutes <06945> from <04480> the land <0776> and got rid of <05493> all <03605> the disgusting idols <01544> his ancestors <01> had made <06213>. 15:13 He also <01571> removed <05493> Maacah <04601> his grandmother <0517> from her position as queen <01377> because she had <0834> made <06213> a loathsome <04656> Asherah pole <0842>. Asa <0609> cut down <03772> her Asherah pole <04656> and burned <08313> it in the Kidron <06939> Valley <05158>.

• 1Ki 15:1-8 -- Abijah's Reign over Judah
• 1Ki 15:9-24 -- Asa's Reign over Judah

• ABIJAH

  [ebd] father (i.e., "possessor or worshipper") of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr. 7:8. (2.) 1 Chr. 2:24. (3.) The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28). His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in Beer-sheba, to which...
  [isbe] ABIJAH - a-bi'-ja ('abhiyah or 'abhiyahu (2 Ch 13:20,21), "my father is Yahweh," or "Yahweh is father"): The name of six or more men and two women in the Old Testament. (1) The seventh son of Becher the son of Benjamin (1 Ch...
  

• Asa

  [ebd] physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings...
  [isbe] ASA - a'-sa ('aca', "healer"; Asa): (1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, or rather grandmother, was daughter of A...
  [nave] ASA 1. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 15:8-24; 1 Chr. 3:10; 2 Chr. 14; 15; 16; Matt. 1:7. 2. A Levite, 1 Chr. 9:16.
  

• Abijam

  [ebd] father of the sea; i.e., "seaman" the name always used in Kings of the king of Judah, the son of Rehoboam, elsewhere called Abijah (1 Kings 15:1,7,8). (See ABIJAH.)
  [isbe] ABIJAM - a-bi'-jam ('abhiyam, "father of sea," or, "father of west"). The name given in Kings (1 Ki 14:31; 15:1,7,8) to the son of Rehoboam who succeeded him as king of Judah. See ABIJAH. The name has puzzled scholars. Some ...
  [nave] ABIJAM, called also Abijah and Abia. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 14:31; 15:1; 2 Chr. 12:16. History of, 1 Kin. 15:1-8; 2 Chr. 11:22; 13. Succeeded by Asa, 1 Kin. 15:8; 2 Chr. 14:1.
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Baasha

  [ebd] bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his k...
  

• Maachah

  [ebd] oppression, a small Syrian kingdom near Geshur, east of the Hauran, the district of Batanea (Josh. 13:13; 2 Sam. 10:6,8; 1 Chr. 19:7). (2.) A daughter of Talmai, king of the old native population of Geshur. She became one of...
  [smith] (oppression). The daughter of Nahor by his concubine Beumah. (Genesis 22:24) The father of Achish who was king of Gath at the beginning of Solomon?s reign. (1 Kings 2:39) The daughter, or more probably granddaughter, of A...
  [nave] MAACHAH 1. Son of Nahor, Gen. 22:24. 2. Called also Maacah. Mother of Absalom, 2 Sam. 3:3; 1 Chr. 3:2. 3. Called also Maoch. Father of Achish, 1 Sam. 27:2; 1 Kin. 2:39. 4. Called also Michaiah. Mother of Abijam and grandm...
  

• Abishalom

  [smith] (father of peace), father or grandfather of Maachah, who was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah. (1 Kings 15:2,10) He is called Absalom in (2 Chronicles 11:20,21) This person must be David?s son. See LXX.; (2 ...
  [nave] ABISHALOM. 1 Kin. 15:2, 10. See: Absalom.
  

• Rulers

  [nave] RULERS Appointed and removed by God. See: Government, God in. Chastised, Dan. 4. See: Nation. Monarchical, See: Kings. Patriarchal, Gen. 27:29, 37. Instances of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. Abraham, Gen. 14:13-24; 17:6; 21:2...
  

• Zeal

  [nave] ZEAL, Religious Josh. 24:15, 16; 2 Sam. 24:24, 25; 1 Kin. 9:4; 1 Kin. 15:14; 1 Chr. 29:17; 2 Chr. 15:15; 2 Chr. 19:3; Ezra 7:23; Job 16:19; Psa. 42:1, 2; Psa. 60:4; Psa. 96:2, 3, 10; Psa. 119:139; Prov. 11:30; Eccl. 9:10; ...
  

• QUEEN MOTHER

  [isbe] QUEEN MOTHER - (gebhirah, literally, "mistress," then a female ruler, and sometimes simply the wife of a king ("queen," 1 Ki 11:19); in Dan 5:10 the term malketha' "queen," really means the mother of the king): It stands to ...
  

• TEMPLE, A1

  [isbe] TEMPLE, A1 - tem'-p'l (hekhal, "palace"; sometimes, as in 1 Ki 6:3,5, etc.; Ezek 41:1,15 ff, used for "the holy place" only; bayith, "house," thus always in the Revised Version (British and American); hieron, naos): A. STRUC...
  

• CHEMOSH

  [isbe] CHEMOSH - ke'-mosh (kemosh; Chamos): 1. Moabites, the People of Chemosh 2. Solomon and Chemosh Worship 3. Josiah Putting Down Chemosh Worship 4. Chemosh and Ammonites 5. Moabite Stone 6. Mesha's Inscription and the Old Testa...
  

• Children

  [nave] CHILDREN In answer to prayer: To Abraham, Gen. 15:2-5, with Gen. 21:1, 2; Isaac, Gen. 25:21; Leah, Gen. 30:17-22; Rachel, Gen. 30:22-24; Haah, 1 Sam. 1:9-20; Zacharias, Luke 1:13. Treatment of, at birth, Ezek. 16:4-6; Luke ...
  

• GOD, 2

  [isbe] GOD, 2 - II. The Idea of God in the Old Testament. 1. Course of Its Development: Any attempt to write the whole history of the idea of God in the Old Testament would require a preliminary study of the literary and historical...
  

• MAACAH; MAACHAH

  [isbe] MAACAH; MAACHAH - ma'-a-ka (ma`akhah): (1) Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Mocha; Codex Alexandrinus Mocha, daughter of Nahor, borne to him by Reumah (Gen 22:24). (2) Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Maacha; Codex Alexandrinus Maacha...
  

• ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF - || I. THE FIRST PERIOD 1. The Two Kingdoms 2. The Ist Dynasty 3. The IInd Dynasty 4. Civil War II. PERIOD OF THE SYRIAN WARS 1. The IIIrd Dynasty 2. World-Politics 3. Battle of Karkar 4. Loss of Territor...
  

• Jeroboam

  [nave] JEROBOAM: 1. First king of Israel after the revolt. Promoted by Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:28. Ahijah's prophecy concerning, 1 Kin. 11:29-39; 14:5-16. Flees to Egypt to escape from Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:26-40. Recalled from Egypt by...
  

• Chronology

  [ebd] is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned, e.g., from the time of the...
  

• Kidron

  [ebd] = Kedron = Cedron, turbid, the winter torrent which flows through the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the eastern side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. This valley is known in Scripture only by the name "the...
  [nave] KIDRON, called also Cedron. A valley and stream between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, 1 Kin. 2:37; Neh. 2:15; Jer. 31:40. David flees from Absalom across, 2 Sam. 15:23. Destruction of idols at, by Asa, Josiah, and the ...
  

• QUEEN

  [ebd] No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for "queen" is not malkah, one actually ruling like the Queen of She...
  [smith] This title is properly applied to the queen-mother, since in an Oriental household it is not the wife but the mother of the master who exercises the highest authority. Strange as such an arrangement at sight appears, it is on...
  

• King Abijah

  

• Asa's Reform

  

• Asa Building, Fighting, and Looting

  

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