1 Kings 15:8-9
Context15:8 Abijah passed away 1 and was buried 2 in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.
15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:14
Context15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 3
1 Kings 15:16
Context15:16 Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other. 4
1 Kings 15:28
Context15:28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:32
Context15:32 Asa and King Nadab of Israel were continually at war with each other.
1 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. 5
1 Kings 22:41
Context22:41 In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.
1 Kings 22:46
Context22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. 6


[15:8] 1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”
[15:8] 2 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
[15:14] 3 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the
[15:16] 5 tn Heb “There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.”
[16:10] 7 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
[22:46] 9 tn Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.