1 Kings 15 - Study the King James Bible

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

1 Kings 14:31, 2 Chronicles 13:1, 2-22
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 3:10 - Abia 2 Chronicles 11:20 - Abijah

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

his mother's: 1 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 11:20-22
Maachah: 2 Chronicles 13:2, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel
Abishalom: 2 Chronicles 11:21, Absalom
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:10 - mother's 1 Kings 22:42 - And his mother's 2 Chronicles 15:16 - the mother

3.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

all the sins: 1 Kings 14:21, 1 Kings 14:22
and his heart: 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 11:4, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 20:3, 2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 31:20, 2 Chronicles 31:21, Psalms 119:80
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - walking 1 Kings 8:61 - perfect 1 Kings 14:31 - Rehoboam 1 Kings 15:5 - David 1 Kings 15:11 - Asa 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols 1 Kings 15:14 - was perfect 2 Kings 13:6 - walked 2 Kings 14:3 - he did 2 Kings 16:2 - did not 2 Kings 17:7 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 17:3 - he walked Psalms 51:10 - right Acts 13:22 - I have Hebrews 10:22 - a true Revelation 3:2 - thy works

4.

Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

for David's: 1 Kings 11:12, 1 Kings 11:32, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 19:29, Genesis 26:5, Deuteronomy 4:37, 2 Samuel 7:12-16, Isaiah 37:35, Jeremiah 33:20-26, Romans 11:28
give him: 1 Kings 11:36, 2 Chronicles 21:7, Psalms 132:17, Luke 1:69-79, Luke 2:32, John 8:12, Revelation 22:16
lamp: or, candle, Psalms 18:28
and to establish: Psalms 87:5, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 14:32, Isaiah 62:7, Jeremiah 33:2, Micah 4:1, Micah 4:2, Matthew 16:18
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 21:17 - quench 2 Kings 8:19 - for David 2 Kings 16:5 - but could not 2 Kings 19:34 - my servant 2 Chronicles 17:3 - he walked 2 Chronicles 22:11 - she slew him not Psalms 132:10 - thy servant Proverbs 17:6 - and the Isaiah 38:5 - God

5.

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

David: 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Kings 14:8, 2 Kings 22:2, 2 Chronicles 34:2, Psalms 119:6, Luke 1:6, Acts 13:22, Acts 13:36
save only: 2 Samuel 11:4, 2 Samuel 11:15-17, 2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:10, Psalms 51:1, *title
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:20 - he turn 1 Samuel 25:28 - evil hath 2 Samuel 23:39 - Uriah 1 Kings 3:6 - according 1 Kings 3:14 - as thy 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou 1 Kings 22:43 - he turned 2 Kings 8:19 - for David 2 Kings 18:3 - according 2 Kings 23:25 - that turned 1 Chronicles 21:7 - And God was displeased with this thing 2 Chronicles 31:20 - wrought Psalms 44:18 - heart Psalms 78:72 - according Psalms 132:10 - thy servant Proverbs 6:33 - and his Matthew 1:6 - her

6.

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

there was war: Instead of Rehoboam fourteen manuscripts, the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam. The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of 1 Kings 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah. (See note on 2 Chronicles 13:3, etc). 1 Kings 14:30
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:16 - General 1 Chronicles 3:10 - Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 13:2 - And there was

7.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

the rest: 1 Kings 14:29, 2 Chronicles 13:2, 2 Chronicles 13:21, 2 Chronicles 13:22
there was war: 2 Chronicles 13:3-20
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:30 - General 1 Kings 15:16 - General 1 Kings 15:23 - rest of all 2 Kings 20:20 - the book

8.

And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

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Abijam: 1 Kings 14:1, 1 Kings 14:31, 2 Chronicles 14:1
Asa: 1 Chronicles 3:9, Matthew 1:7, Matthew 1:8
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:43 - slept 1 Kings 15:23 - rest of all 1 Chronicles 3:10 - Asa

9.

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 13:20 - he died

10.

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

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mother's: that is, grandmother's. 1 Kings 15:2, 1 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 11:20, 2 Chronicles 11:21, 2 Chronicles 13:2
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:42 - And his mother's 2 Chronicles 15:16 - the mother

11.

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

Asa: 1 Kings 15:3, 2 Chronicles 14:2, 2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 2 Chronicles 16:7-10
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:43 - he walked 2 Kings 18:3 - according 2 Chronicles 20:32 - the way 2 Chronicles 21:12 - in the ways of Asa

12.

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

the sodomites: 1 Kings 14:24, 1 Kings 22:46, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, Jude 1:7
all the idols: 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:8, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Chronicles 14:2-5, Ezekiel 20:18, Ezekiel 20:19, Zechariah 1:2-6, 1 Peter 1:18
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:17 - sodomite 2 Kings 18:4 - brake 2 Kings 23:7 - the sodomites 2 Chronicles 14:3 - the high places Hosea 4:14 - and they

13.

And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

Maachah: 1 Kings 15:2, 1 Kings 15:10, 2 Chronicles 15:15, 2 Chronicles 15:16-19
his mother: Deuteronomy 13:6-11, Deuteronomy 33:9, Zechariah 13:3, Matthew 10:37, Matthew 12:46-50, 2 Corinthians 5:16, Galatians 2:5, Galatians 2:6, Galatians 2:14
destroyed: Heb. cut off, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 7:5, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:12-15, 2 Chronicles 34:4
and burnt: Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21, Joshua 6:24
the brook: 2 Samuel 15:23, 2 Kings 23:6, John 18:1, Cedron
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:3 - and burn 1 Kings 2:37 - over the 1 Kings 18:19 - prophets of the groves 2 Kings 17:16 - a grove

14.

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

the high places: 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 14:5
was perfect: 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Kings 8:61, 1 Kings 11:4, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 2 Chronicles 15:18, 2 Chronicles 16:9, 2 Chronicles 25:2
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - only he 2 Kings 18:4 - removed 2 Kings 20:3 - a perfect heart 2 Chronicles 14:2 - good and right 2 Chronicles 15:16 - cut down Isaiah 38:3 - a perfect

15.

And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

he brought: 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Chronicles 26:26-28, 2 Chronicles 14:13, 2 Chronicles 15:18
things: Heb. holy
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:18 - Asa 2 Kings 18:15 - General 1 Chronicles 28:12 - the treasuries

16.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15:6, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:32, 1 Kings 14:30, 2 Chronicles 16:1-6
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - long war 1 Kings 15:27 - Baasha the son 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth

17.

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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Baasha: 1 Kings 15:27, 2 Chronicles 16:1-6
Ramah: By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission. 1 Kings 15:21, Joshua 18:25, 1 Samuel 15:34, Jeremiah 31:15
he might not suffer: 1 Kings 12:27, 2 Chronicles 11:13-17
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:25 - built 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth Jeremiah 41:9 - for fear

18.

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

Asa: 1 Kings 15:15, 1 Kings 14:26, 2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 18:15, 2 Kings 18:16, 2 Chronicles 15:18, 2 Chronicles 16:2-6
Benhadad: 1 Kings 20:1-5, 1 Kings 20:33, 1 Kings 20:34, 2 Kings 8:7-15
Damascus: 1 Kings 11:23, 1 Kings 11:24, Genesis 14:15, Genesis 15:2, Jeremiah 49:27, Amos 1:4
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 14:14 - all the gold 1 Chronicles 26:20 - treasures 1 Chronicles 28:12 - the treasuries 2 Chronicles 12:9 - took away

19.

There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

There is a league: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Isaiah 31:1
break thy league: 2 Samuel 21:2, 2 Chronicles 16:3, Ezekiel 17:13-16, Romans 1:31, Romans 3:8
depart: Heb. go up
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - carry down 1 Kings 5:12 - they two 2 Kings 18:15 - General Ecclesiastes 2:4 - I builded Isaiah 9:1 - when

20.

So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Ijon: Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus - Ezekiel 48:1, and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy. 2 Kings 15:29
Dan: 1 Kings 12:29, Genesis 14:14, Judges 18:29, Abel-beth-maachah, 2 Samuel 20:14, 2 Samuel 20:15
Cinneroth: Joshua 11:2, Joshua 12:3
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:1 - Benhadad 1 Kings 20:34 - The cities 2 Chronicles 16:4 - Ijon Isaiah 9:1 - when

21.

And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

when Baasha: 2 Chronicles 16:5
Tirzah: 1 Kings 14:17, 1 Kings 16:15-18, Song of Solomon 6:4
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:17 - Ramah 1 Kings 16:6 - Tirzah 2 Kings 15:14 - Tirzah

22.

Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

made a proclamation: 2 Chronicles 16:6
exempted: Heb. free
Geba: Joshua 18:24, Gaba, Joshua 21:17
Mizpah: Joshua 18:26, 1 Samuel 7:5, Mizpeh, Jeremiah 40:6, Jeremiah 40:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:49 - Mizpah Joshua 11:3 - land 2 Kings 23:8 - Geba Zechariah 14:10 - from Geba

23.

The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

rest of all: 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:8, 1 Kings 14:29-31
in the time: 2 Chronicles 16:12-14, Psalms 90:10
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:39 - the rest 2 Kings 8:23 - General 2 Kings 20:20 - the book 2 Chronicles 16:11 - Judah Isaiah 10:29 - Geba

24.

And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

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was buried: Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in 2 Chronicles 16:14.
Jehoshaphat: 1 Kings 22:41-43, 2 Chronicles 17:1-9, Matthew 1:8, Josaphat
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:43 - slept 1 Kings 14:31 - Rehoboam 1 Kings 22:2 - Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 22:50 - in the city 1 Chronicles 3:10 - Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 16:13 - slept

25.

And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.

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Nadab: 1 Kings 14:12, 1 Kings 14:20
began to reign: Heb. reigned
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:10 - I will bring 1 Kings 16:6 - Baasha 1 Kings 16:21 - divided 1 Kings 22:51 - two years 2 Kings 15:23 - and reigned two years 2 Kings 21:19 - two years Esther 2:21 - and sought Proverbs 28:2 - the transgression

26.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

he did evil: 1 Kings 16:7, 1 Kings 16:25, 1 Kings 16:30
walked: 1 Kings 12:28-33, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34
in his sin: 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 16:19, 1 Kings 16:26, 1 Kings 21:22, 1 Kings 22:52, Genesis 20:9, Exodus 32:21, 1 Samuel 2:24, 2 Kings 3:3, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Kings 23:15, Jeremiah 32:35, Romans 14:15, 1 Corinthians 8:10-13
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 33:9 - made Judah Ezekiel 23:5 - Aholah

27.

And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

Baasha the son: 1 Kings 15:16, 1 Kings 15:17, 1 Kings 14:14
conspired: 1 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 12:20
Gibbethon: 1 Kings 16:15, 1 Kings 16:17, Joshua 19:44, Joshua 21:23
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:7 - because he killed him 2 Kings 9:14 - conspired 2 Kings 21:23 - General

28.

Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

Deuteronomy 32:35
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:21 - divided 2 Kings 8:15 - so that he died 2 Kings 15:10 - slew him Proverbs 28:2 - the transgression Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Hosea 7:7 - devoured

29.

And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

he left not: 1 Kings 14:9-16, 2 Kings 9:7-10, 2 Kings 9:36, 2 Kings 9:37, 2 Kings 10:10, 2 Kings 10:11, 2 Kings 10:31, 2 Kings 19:25
Reciprocal: Joshua 10:40 - utterly 1 Kings 13:34 - to cut it off 1 Kings 16:3 - will make thy house 1 Kings 16:11 - he slew 1 Kings 21:22 - make thine 2 Kings 9:9 - like the house Jeremiah 41:7 - slew

30.

Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

the sins: 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 14:9-16
by his provocation: 1 Kings 14:22
Reciprocal: Joshua 22:25 - make 1 Samuel 2:24 - ye make 1 Kings 11:26 - Jeroboam 1 Kings 13:34 - to cut it off 1 Kings 14:16 - who did sin 1 Kings 16:3 - will make thy house 1 Kings 16:13 - in provoking 1 Kings 16:19 - in doing 1 Kings 21:22 - made Israel to sin 2 Kings 21:11 - made Judah 2 Kings 23:15 - the altar Jeremiah 32:35 - to cause Ezekiel 23:5 - Aholah Hosea 6:10 - there

31.

Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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are they not written: 1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:14, 1 Kings 16:20, 1 Kings 16:27
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:39 - the rest 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth 2 Chronicles 33:18 - in the book

32.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

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there was war: That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was, according to 2 Chronicles 15:19, 2 Chronicles 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to 1 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 16:9, his son was killed by Zimri in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. 1 Kings 15:16
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - long war 2 Chronicles 16:9 - henceforth

33.

In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

twenty and four years: 1 Kings 16:8
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:17 - Tirzah 1 Kings 16:1 - Hanani 2 Kings 15:14 - Tirzah 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth Song of Solomon 6:4 - as Tirzah

34.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

he did evil: 1 Kings 15:26
walked: 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:29, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34, 1 Kings 14:16, Isaiah 1:4
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:13 - General 1 Kings 14:9 - hast done 1 Kings 16:2 - thou hast walked 1 Kings 16:19 - in his 1 Kings 21:22 - made Israel to sin 1 Kings 22:52 - and in the way 2 Kings 3:3 - which made