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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>. 15:14 The high places <01116> were not <03808> eliminated <05493>, yet <07535> Asa <0609> was <01961> wholeheartedly <03824> devoted <08003> to <05973> the Lord <03069> throughout <03605> his lifetime <03117>. 15:15 He brought <0935> the holy <06944> items that he and his father <01> had made into the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>, including the silver <03701>, gold <02091>, and other articles <03627>.

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

• 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...
  

• Sodomites

  [ebd] those who imitated the licentious wickedness of Sodom (Deut. 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; Rom. 1:26, 27). Asa destroyed them "out of the land" (1 Kings 15:12), as did also his son Jehoshaphat (22:46).
  

• 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...
  

• 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 ...
  

• 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...
  

• Kings, The Books of

  [ebd] The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third and fourth books of Kings...
  

• Kedron

  [ebd] the valley, now quite narrow, between the Mount of Olives and Mount Moriah. The upper part of it is called the Valley of Jehoshaphat. The LXX., in 1 Kings 15:13, translate "of the cedar." The word means "black," and may refe...
  

• 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...
  

• Idol

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. aven, "nothingness;" "vanity" (Isa. 66:3; 41:29; Deut. 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13; Ps. 31:6; Jer. 8:19, etc.). (2.) 'Elil, "a thing of naught" (Ps. 97:7; Isa. 19:3); a word of contempt, used of the gods of Noph (Ezek. 30...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• Father

  [ebd] a name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. (Judg. 17:10; 18:19; 1 Sam. 10:12; 2 Kings 2:12; Matt. 23:9, etc.). (3) ...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• Burial

  [ebd] The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver curr...
  

• 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...
  

• 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.
  

• ABSALOM (1)

  [isbe] ABSALOM (1) - ab'-sa-lom ('abhshalom, "father is peace," written also Abishalom, 1 Ki 15:2,10): David's third son by Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, a small territory between Hermon and Bashan. 1. A General Favor...
  

• 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...
  

• King Abijah

  

• Asa's Reform

  

• Asa Building, Fighting, and Looting

  

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