1. Now in the eighteenth year of Melech Yarov`am Ben Nevat reigned Aviyam over Yehudah.
2. Shalosh shanim reigned he in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Ma'achah Bat Avishalom.
3. And he walked in all the chattot Aviv, which he had done before him; and his lev was not shalem (fully devoted) to Hashem Elohav, as the levav Dovid Aviv.
4. Nevertheless l'ma'an Dovid (for the sake of Dovid) did Hashem Elohav give him a ner (lamp) in Yerushalayim, to raise up Bno after him, and to establish Yerushalayim;
5. Because Dovid did that which was yashar in the eyes of Hashem, and turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriyah HaChitti (the Hittite).
6. And there was milchamah between Rechav`am and Yarov`am all the days of his life.
7. Now the rest of the acts of Aviyam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Sefer Divrei HaYamim L'Malkhei Yehudah? And there was milchamah between Aviyam and Yarov`am.
8. And Aviyam slept with his avot; and they buried him in Ir Dovid; and Asa Bno reigned in his place.
9. And in the twentieth year of Yarov`am Melech Yisroel, Asa began to reign as Melech over Yehudah.
10. And forty and one years reigned he in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Ma'achah Bat Avishalom.
11. And Asa did that which was yashar in the eyes of Hashem, as did Dovid Aviv.
12. And he removed kedeshim (the male and female cult prostitutes) out of HaAretz, and got rid of kol hagillulim (all the idols) that his avot had made.
13. And also Ma'achah immo, even her he deposed from being Gevirah (Queen Mother), because she had made a mifletzet (idol) to Asherah; and Asa cut down her mifletzet, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
14. But the high places were not removed; nevertheless levav Asa was shalem with Hashem all his days.
15. And he brought in the kodshei Aviv (the things his father had dedicated), and the things which he himself had dedicated, into the Beis Hashem, kesef, and zahav, and kelim.
16. And there was milchamah between Asa and Ba'asha Melech Yisroel all their days.