3. He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father.
4. For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;
5. because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn’t turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7. The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8. Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son became king in his place.
9. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.
10. He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11. Asa did right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his ancestor.
12. He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made.
13. Also, he had Maacah his mother removed from the office of queen mother, as she had made a repulsive image for the Asherah. Asa also cut down her repulsive image and burned it in the Wadi Kidron.
14. But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days.
15. He brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects to the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and utensils.
16. There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all of their days.
17. Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah to hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa king of Judah.
18. Asa took all of the silver and gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants; so King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,
19. “Let there be a covenant between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel that he may go up away from me.”
20. Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and he attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Beth-Maacah, and all of Kinnereth, in addition to all the land of Naphtali.