1
So Abijah 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; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.
2
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
3
For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
4
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
5
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
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