CSB

CSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

1 Kings 15 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
Judah’s King Abijam
(2Ch 13:1—14:1 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 -

In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 -

and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter[fn] of Abishalom.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 -

Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God as his ancestor David had been.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:4 -

But for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp[fn] in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 -

For David did what was right in the LORD’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hethite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:6 -

There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam’s life.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 -

The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8 -

Abijam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.

Judah’s King Asa
(2Ch 14:1—16:14 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 -

In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 -

and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s[fn] name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 -

Asa did what was right in the LORD’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 -

He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 -

He also removed his grandmother[fn] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 -

The high places were not taken away, but Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his entire life.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:15 -

He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the LORD’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:16 -

There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 -

Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 -

So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and gave it to his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 -

“There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 -

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all Chinnereth, and the whole land of Naphtali.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 -

When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:22 -

Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 -

The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:24 -

Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place.

Israel’s King Nadab
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:25 -

Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Judah’s King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:26 -

Nadab did what was evil in the LORD’s sight and walked in the ways of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:27 -

Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:28 -

In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 -

When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam. He did not leave Jeroboam any survivors but[fn] destroyed his family according to the word of the LORD he had spoken through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 -

This was because Jeroboam had angered[fn] the LORD God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:31 -

The rest of the events of Nadab’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:32 -

There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

Israel’s King Baasha
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:33 -

In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 -

He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight and walked in the ways of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

CSB Footnotes
Possibly granddaughter, also in v. 10; 2Ch 13:2
Or dominion
Lit mother’s
Lit mother
Lit Jeroboam anyone breathing until he
Lit provoked in the provocation of
CSB

Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017, 2020 by Holman Bible Publishers.

Additional information is provided here.

For more information on this translation, see the CSB Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
CSB
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
CSB

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

1 Kings Chapter 15 — Additional Translations: