1 Kings 15:11

15:11 Asa did what the Lord approved ¹  like his ancestor ²  David had done.

1 Kings 15:14

15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ³ 

1 Kings 15:2

15:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom. ⁵ 

1 Kings 14:2-5

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise ⁶  yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. ⁷  14:3 Take ⁸  ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. ⁹  Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. ¹⁰  14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ¹¹  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

1 Kings 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ¹²  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Kings 15:8

15:8 Abijah passed away ¹³  and was buried ¹⁴  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:17

15:17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 17:3

17:3 “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

[15:11]  ¹ tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[15:11]  ² tn Heb “father,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the Lord all his days.”

[15:2]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:2]  ⁵ sn Abishalom (also in v. 10) is a variant of the name Absalom (cf. 2 Chr 11:20). The more common form is used by TEV, NLT.

[14:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

[14:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

[14:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “take in your hand.”

[14:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

[14:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

[14:5]  ¹¹ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

[14:11]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[15:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

[15:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[15:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”