1. Abijah lay down with his ancestors and was buried in David’s City. His son Asa succeeded him as king.In Asa’s time, the land had peace for ten years.
2. Asa did what was right and good in the Lord his God’s eyes.
3. He removed the foreign altars and shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the sacred poles,
4. and urged Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, by doing what the Instruction and the commandments required.