1 En in die agttiende jaar van koning Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, het Ab¡a oor Juda koning geword.

2 Hy het drie jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was M äga, die dogter van Ab¡salom.

3 En hy het gewandel in al die sondes van sy vader wat hy voor hom gedoen het; en sy hart was nie volkome met die HERE sy God soos die hart van sy vader Dawid nie.

4 Maar ter wille van Dawid het die HERE sy God vir hom 'n lamp in Jerusalem gegee deur sy seun n hom te verwek en Jerusalem in stand te hou,

5 omdat Dawid gedoen het wat reg was in die oë van die HERE, sonder om af te wyk van alles wat Hy hom beveel het, al die dae van sy lewe, behalwe in die saak van Ur¡a, die Hetiet.

6 En daar was oorlog tussen Reh beam en Jerobeam, al die dae van sy lewe.

7 En die verdere geskiedenis van Ab¡a en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie? Daar was ook oorlog tussen Ab¡a en Jerobeam.

8 En Ab¡a het ontslaap met sy vaders, en hy is begrawe in die stad van Dawid; en sy seun Asa het in sy plek koning geword.

9 In die twintigste jaar dan van Jerobeam, die koning van Israel, het Asa koning van Juda geword.

10 En hy het een en veertig jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was M äga, 'n dogter van Ab¡salom.

11 En Asa het gedoen wat reg was in die oë van die HERE net soos sy vader Dawid:

12 hy het die skandseuns uit die land laat wegtrek en al die drekgode verwyder wat sy vaders gemaak het.

13 Ja, selfs sy moeder M äga het hy as gebiedster afgesit, omdat sy 'n afgryslike voorwerp vir Asj,ra gemaak het; en Asa het die afgryslike voorwerp omgekap en in die dal Kidron verbrand.

14 Die hoogtes is wel nie afgeskaf nie, maar Asa se hart was volkome met die HERE al sy dae.

15 En hy het die heilige gawes van sy vader en sy heilige gawes in die huis van die HERE gebring: silwer en goud en allerhande voorwerpe.

16 En daar was oorlog tussen Asa en Ba,sa, die koning van Israel, al hulle dae.

17 En Ba,sa, die koning van Israel, het teen Juda opgetrek en Rama gebou om niemand van Asa, die koning van Juda, te laat uit-- of ingaan nie.

18 Toe neem Asa al die silwer en die goud wat oorgebly het in die skatkamers van die huis van die HERE en die skatte van die huis van die koning, en gee dit in die hand van sy dienaars; en koning Asa het hulle gestuur na B,nhadad, die seun van Tabr¡mmon, die seun van H,sjon, die koning van Aram wat in Damaskus gewoon het, om te sê:

19 Daar is 'n verbond tussen my en u, tussen my vader en u vader; kyk, ek stuur 'n geskenk van silwer en goud; gaan verbreek u verbond met Ba,sa, die koning van Israel, dat hy kan optrek, weg van my af.

20 En B,nhadad het geluister na koning Asa en die owerstes van sy leërmagte teen die stede van Israel gestuur, en Ijon en Dan en Abel-Bet-M äga en die hele K¡nnerot met die hele land N ftali verwoes.

21 En net toe Ba,sa dit hoor, het hy opgehou om Rama te bou en in Tirsa gebly.

22 Toe roep koning Asa die hele Juda op -- niemand was vry nie -- en hulle het die klippe en balke van Rama, waarmee Ba,sa gebou het, weggedra; en daarmee het koning Asa Geba in Benjamin en Mispa gebou.

23 En die res van die verdere geskiedenis van Asa en al sy magtige dade en alles wat hy gedoen het, en die stede wat hy gebou het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie? Maar in die tyd van sy ouderdom het hy aan sy voete gely.

24 En Asa het ontslaap met sy vaders en is by sy vaders begrawe in die stad van sy vader Dawid; en sy seun Josafat het in sy plek koning geword.

25 En Nadab, die seun van Jerobeam, het koning geword oor Israel in die tweede jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, en hy het twee jaar oor Israel geregeer.

26 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, en gewandel in die weg van sy vader en in sy sonde waarmee hy Israel laat sondig het.

27 Maar Ba,sa, die seun van Ah¡a, van die huis van Issaskar, het 'n sameswering teen hom gesmee, en Ba,sa het hom verslaan by G¡bbeton wat aan die Filistyne behoort, terwyl Nadab en die hele Israel besig was om G¡bbeton te beleër.

28 So het Ba,sa hom dan gedood in die derde jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, en koning geword in sy plek.

29 En sodra hy koning was, het hy die hele huis van Jerobeam omgebring; hy het van Jerobeam niks laat oorbly wat asemhaal nie, totdat hy hom verdelg het, volgens die woord van die HERE wat Hy gespreek het deur die diens van sy kneg Ah¡a, die Siloniet --

30 vanweë die sondes van Jerobeam wat hy gedoen en waarmee hy Israel laat sondig het, deur sy geterg waarmee hy die HERE, die God van Israel, geterg het.

31 En die verdere geskiedenis van Nadab en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?

32 En daar was oorlog tussen Asa en Ba,sa, die koning van Israel, al hulle dae.

33 In die derde jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, het Ba,sa, die seun van Ah¡a, oor die hele Israel koning geword in Tirsa, vier en twintig jaar lank.

34 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE en gewandel in die weg van Jerobeam en in sy sonde waarmee hy Israel laat sondig het.

1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

2 For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

4 But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

6 ...

7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

8 Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.

9 In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

10 And he was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

13 And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

15 He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

16 Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

17 And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

19 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

20 So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.

21 And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

22 Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

23 Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

24 So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

25 Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

28 In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

29 And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

30 Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

33 In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.

34 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.