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And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa, his son, reigned for him.
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And Asa, king of Judah, reigned in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel; (And Asa, the king of Judah, began to reign in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, the king of Israel;)
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and Asa reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his (grand)mother was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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And Asa did rightfulness in the sight of the Lord, as David, his father, did;
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and he took away from the land men of women's conditions, and he purged all the filths of idols, which his fathers (had) made.
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.