2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
3. He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
4. Nevertheless, for David’s sake, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,
5. because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter involving Uriah the Hittite.
6. The war begun between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continued all the days of his life.
7. Now the rest of the acts of Abijah 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 Abijah and Jeroboam.
8. Abijah 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 became king over Judah.
10. He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and his grandmother’s name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11. Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.
12. He expelled the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13. In addition he even deposed his grandmother Maakah as queen, because she had made an idol in a grove. Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the Kidron brook.
14. But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
15. He brought into the house of the Lord the things that both his father and he himself had dedicated, the silver and gold and cups.
16. There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17. Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah so he could prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.