6. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
7. The rest of the acts of Abijam, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8. Abijam rested with his ancestors; they buried him in the City of David, and his son Asa succeeded him as king.
9. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Asa, king of Judah, became king;
10. he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah, daughter of Abishalom.
11. Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord like David his father,
12. banishing the pagan priests from the land and removing all the idols his ancestors had made.
13. He also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an outrageous object for Asherah. Asa cut down this object and burned it in the Wadi Kidron.
14. The high places did not disappear; yet Asa’s heart was entirely with the Lord as long as he lived.
15. He brought into the house of the Lord his father’s and his own votive offerings of silver and gold and various vessels.
16. There was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
17. Baasha, king of Israel, attacked Judah and fortified Ramah to blockade Asa, king of Judah.
18. Asa then took all the silver and gold remaining in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the house of the king. Entrusting them to his ministers, King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, king of Aram, who ruled in Damascus. He said:
19. “There is a treaty between you and me, as there was between your father and my father. I am sending you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha, king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”