Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other. ¹ 

Asa and King Nadab of Israel were continually at war with each other.

(14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved. ¹ 

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹ 

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. ¹  Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

Asa did what the Lord approved ¹  like his ancestor ²  David had done.

Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king.

In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.

Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, followed by Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

and Asa went out to oppose him. They deployed for battle in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ¹ 

The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

Asa passed away ¹  in the forty-first year of his reign.

King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹  from her position as queen mother ²  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Abijah passed away ¹  and was buried ²  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

Asa passed away ¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.

In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.