1. And Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Asa his son then reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years.
2. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
3. He took down the foreign altars and high places, and he shattered the pillars and cut down the images of Asherah.
4. Then he urged Judah to seek the Lord the God of their fathers and to keep the law and commandments.
5. And he also removed all the high places and incense altars in the cities in Judah. And the kingdom was at rest under Asa.