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And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Asa his son succeeded him as king.
Asa King of Judah
9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king of Judah,
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and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.
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Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
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He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
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He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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Although he did not remove the high places, Asa’s heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.
In this chapter we have a short history of the reign of Abijam, 1Ki 15:1-8 and of Asa, 1Ki 14:9-24, both kings of Judah; and of the reigns of Nadab the son of Jeroboam, and of Baasha, who destroyed his family, both kings of Israel, 1Ki 15:25-34.