6. Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7. 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.
8. And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.
9. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah,
10. and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11. And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done.
12. He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13. He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
14. But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
15. And he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.