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.
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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.
1 尼八的儿子耶罗波安王第十八年， 亚比央登基作犹大王。
2 他在耶路撒冷作王三年， 他的母亲名叫玛迦， 是押沙龙的女儿。
3 亚比央行他父亲在他以前所行的一切罪恶。他的心不完完全全归向耶和华他的 神， 像他先祖大卫的心一样。
4 然而， 耶和华他的 神却因大卫的缘故， 使他在耶路撒冷仍然有灯光， 兴起他的儿子接续他作王， 并且坚立耶路撒冷。
5 因为除了赫人乌利亚那事以外， 大卫都行耶和华看为正的事， 一生之中从来没有偏离耶和华所吩咐他的一切。
6 亚比央一生的日子中， 罗波安与耶罗波安之间常有战争。
7 亚比央其余的事迹和他所行的一切， 不是都写在犹大列王的年代志上吗？亚比央与耶罗波安之间常有战争。
8 亚比央与他的列祖同睡， 人们把他埋葬在大卫城里， 他的儿子亚撒继承他作王。
9 以色列王耶罗波安第二十年， 亚撒登基作犹大王。
10 他在耶路撒冷作王四十一年。他的祖母名叫玛迦， 是押沙龙的女儿。
11 亚撒行耶和华看为正的事， 像他祖大卫一样。
12 他从国中除去庙妓， 又除掉他列祖所做的一切偶像。
13 并且废除他祖母玛迦太后的后位， 因为她为亚舍拉做了可怕的偶像。亚撒把她那可怕的偶像砍下来， 在汲沦溪旁烧掉。
14 只是邱坛还没有废去； 不过亚撒一生都完完全全归向耶和华。
15 亚撒把他父亲所分别为圣和他自己所分别为圣的金银和器皿， 都带到耶和华的殿里。
16 亚撒与以色列王巴沙在世的日子， 双方常有战争。
17 以色列王巴沙上来攻击犹大， 修筑拉玛， 不准人进出到犹大王亚撒那里。
18 于是亚撒把耶和华殿和王宫的府库里所剩下的金银， 都交在他臣仆的手中。亚撒王差派他们到大马士革的亚兰王， 希旬的孙子、他伯利们的儿子便．哈达那里去， 说：
19 "你父与我父之间曾经立过约， 我也要与你立约。现在我把金银送给你作礼物， 请你去废除与以色列王巴沙所立的约， 好使他离开我。"
20 便．哈达听从亚撒王的话， 派遣他的众军长去攻击以色列的各城。他们攻破了以云、但、亚伯．伯．玛迦、基尼烈全境和拿弗他利全地。
21 巴沙听见了， 就停止修筑拉玛， 仍然留在得撒。
22 于是亚撒王通告犹大众人， 没有一个人例外。他们就把巴沙修筑拉玛所用的石头和木料运走； 亚撒王用那些材料来修筑便雅悯的迦巴和米斯巴。
23 亚撒其余的一切事迹， 他的英勇事迹， 他所行的一切和他所建造的众城， 不是都写在犹大列王的年代志上吗？可是他年老的时候， 脚上却患了病。
24 亚撒与他的列祖同睡， 与他的列祖一同埋葬在他祖大卫的城里， 他的儿子约沙法接续他作王。
25 犹大王亚撒第二年， 耶罗波安的儿子拿答登基作以色列王； 他作以色列王共二年。
26 拿答行耶和华看为恶的事， 跟随他父亲的路， 犯他父亲使以色列人陷在罪中的那罪。
27 以萨迦家族亚希雅的儿子巴沙密谋背叛拿答。拿答和以色列众人正在围攻非利士地的基比顿的时候， 巴沙在基比顿把拿答杀了。
28 犹大王亚撒第三年， 巴沙杀死了拿答接续他作王。
29 巴沙一作王， 就击杀了耶罗波安的全家。凡有气息的， 他都没有留下一个， 直到灭尽了， 正如耶和华借着他的仆人示罗人亚希雅所说的话一样。
30 这是因为耶罗波安所犯的罪， 和他使以色列人陷在罪中的那罪， 又因为他惹动耶和华以色列的 神的怒气。
31 拿答其余的事迹和他所行的一切， 不是都记在以色列诸王的年代志上吗？
32 亚撒与以色列王巴沙在世的日子， 双方常常有争战。
33 犹大王亚撒第三年， 亚希雅的儿子巴沙在得撒登基作以色列的王， 共二十四年。
34 他行耶和华看为恶的事， 行耶罗波安的路， 犯了耶罗波安使以色列人陷在罪中的那罪。