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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, ¹ 

Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  King Asa used the materials to build up ²  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

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.

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 

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

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

The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹ 

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

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

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.