2 Chronicles 14:1

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2 Chronicles 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

3 He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Chronicles 9:31

And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

1 Kings 2:10

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 14:31

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15:8

And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15:9

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

1 Kings 15:10

and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:11

And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

1 Kings 15:12

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Kings 15:14

The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

1 Kings 15:15

And he brought into the house of the LORD the silver and gold and other articles that he and his father had dedicated.

1 Kings 15:16

Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

1 Kings 15:17

Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

1 Kings 15:18

So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

1 Kings 15:19

“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

1 Kings 15:20

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

1 Kings 15:21

When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

1 Kings 15:22

Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.

1 Kings 15:23

Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.

1 Kings 15:24

And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 3:10

Solomon’s son was Rehoboam: Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

Matthew 1:7

Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

Matthew 1:8

Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.