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reigned in Iudah. Rehoboam was one and fourtie of the actes of Abiiam, and all that he did, are they
yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the
seuenteene yere in Ierusalem, the citie which the Kings of Iudah? there was also warre betweene
Lord did chuse out of al the tribes of Israel, to Abiiam, and Ieroboam. 8 And Abiiam slept with
put his Name there: and his mothers name was his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of
Naamah an Ammonite. 22 And Iudah wrought Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade.
wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: and they 9 And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of
prouoked him more with their sinnes, which they Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah. 10 He reigned in
had committed, then all that which their fathers Ierusalem one and fourtie yeere, and his mothers
had done. 23 For they also made them hie places, name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.
and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and 11 And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as
vnder euery greene tree. 24 There were also did Dauid his father. 12 And he tooke away the
Sodomites in the lande, they did according to Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the
all the abominations of the nations, which the idoles that his fathers had made. 13 And he put
Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. downe Maachah his mother also from her estate,
25 And in the fift yere of King Rehoboam, Shishak because shee had made an idole in a groue: and
King of Egypt came vp against Ierusale, 26 And Asa destroyed her idoles, and burnt them by the
tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and brooke Kidron. 14 But they put not downe the
the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away
all: also he caried away all the shields of golde hie places. Neuertheles Asas heart was vpright
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which Salomon had made. 27 And King Rehoboam with the Lord all his dayes. Also he brought
made for them brasen shieldes, and committed in the holy vessels of his father, and the things
them vnto ye hands of the chiefe of the garde, that he had dedicated vnto ye house of the Lord,
which wayted at the doore of the Kings house. siluer, and golde, and vessels. 16 And there was
28 And when the King went into the house of the warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all
Lord, the garde bare them, and brought them their dayes. 17 Then Baasha king of Israel went
againe into the gard chamber. 29 And the rest of vp against Iudah, and buylt Ramah, so that he
the actes of Rehoboam, and all that hee did, are woulde let none go out or in to Asa King of Iudah.
they not written in the booke of the Chronicles 18 Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold
of the Kings of Iudah? 30 And there was warre that was left in the treasures of the house of the
betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam continually. Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes,
and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne
buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: his
mothers name was Naamah an Ammonite. And of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram
Abiiam his sonne reigned in his stead. that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 19 There is a
couenant betweene me and thee, and betweene
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1 And in the eighteenth yeere of King Ieroboam vnto thee a present of siluer and golde: come,
breake thy couenant with Baasha King of Israel,
the sonne of Nebat, reigned Abiiam ouer Iudah. that he may depart from me. 20 So Ben-hadad
2 Three yeere reigned hee in Ierusalem, and his hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines
mothers name was Maachah the daughter of of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of
Abishalom. And hee walked in all the sinnes of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-
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his father, which hee had done before him: and maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land
his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as of Naphtali. 21 And when Baasha heard thereof,
the heart of Dauid his father. But for Dauids sake hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
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did the Lord his God giue him a light in Ierusalem, 22 Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none ex-
and set vp his sonne after him, and established cepted. and they tooke the stones of Ramah, and
Ierusalem, 5 Because Dauid did that which was
right in the sight of the Lord, and turned from the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt,
nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of and King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin
his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hit- and Mizpah. 23 And the rest of all the actes of
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tite. And there was warre betweene Rehoboam Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and
and Ieroboam as long as he liued. The rest also the cities which he buylt, are they not written
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