21. When Baasha heard of it, he quit building up Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah.
22. Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah–none was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building. And King Asa built up with them Geba of Benjamin, and also Mizpah.
23. The rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24. Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of David his father. Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25. Nadab son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned two years.
26. He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, with which he made Israel sin.
27. Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
28. In the third year of Asa king of Judah Baasha slew Nadab and reigned in his stead.
29. As soon as he was king, Baasha killed all the household of Jeroboam. He left to [it] not one who breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite–[I Kings 14:9-16.]
30. Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and by which he made Israel to sin, and because of his provocation of the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger.
31. The rest of Nadab's acts, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
32. There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.