15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 2 15:24 Asa passed away 3 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
15:25 In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years. 15:26 He did evil in the sight of 4 the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 5
15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab 6 and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon. 15:28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king. 15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, 7 just as the Lord had predicted 8 through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. 15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel. 9
15:31 The rest of the events of Nadab’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 10 15:32 Asa and King Nadab of Israel were continually at war with each other.
15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years. 15:34 He did evil in the sight of 11 the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 12
1 tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
2 tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”
3 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
5 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
6 tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”
8 tn Heb “according to the word of the
9 tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the
10 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Nadab, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
11 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
12 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”