1-2Abias começou o seu reinado de apenas 3 anos, como rei de Judá, em Jerusalém, 18 anos após o início do reinado de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate, rei de Israel. A mãe de Abias chamava-se Maacá e era filha de Absalão.3Pecou ainda mais do que o seu pai; o seu coração não foi reto para com o SENHOR, seu Deus, como tinha sido o do rei David.4Apesar do pecado de Abias, o SENHOR lembrou-se do amor que tinha por David e não fez terminar a sua linhagem real.5Porque David obedecera ao SENHOR durante todo o tempo da sua vida, exceto naquele assunto de Urias, o hitita.6Durante o reinado de Roboão continuou a haver guerra entre ele e Jeroboão.7O resto da história deste reinado está relatado no Livro das Crónicas dos Reis de Judá. Abias e Jeroboão guerrearam entre si.8Quando morreu, Abias foi enterrado em Jerusalém e o seu filho Asa sucedeu-lhe no trono.
Asa rei de Judá
9Asa tornou-se rei de Judá, em Jerusalém, 20 anos depois de Jeroboão ter começado a reinar sobre Israel.10Reinou 41 anos. A sua avó era Maacá, filha de Absalão.11Asa fez o que era reto aos olhos do SENHOR, à semelhança do seu antepassado David.12Expulsou do país os que praticavam a prostituição e mandou retirar todos os ídolos que os seus antepassados mandaram fazer.13O rei Asa retirou à sua avó Maacá a distinção de rainha-mãe, por ter sido ela quem fizera o abominável ídolo de Achera; destruiu esse ídolo desprezível, despedaçou-o e queimou-o, deitando as cinzas no ribeiro de Cedron.14Contudo, não foram removidos os santuários pagãos sobre as colinas, apesar do coração de Asa se manter fiel ao SENHOR todo o tempo da sua vida.15Tornou a trazer para o templo as taças e as bacias de prata e de ouro que o seu pai tinha consagrado ao SENHOR.16Houve guerra permanente entre o rei Asa de Judá e o rei Bacha de Israel.17O rei Bacha de Israel declarou-lhe guerra e construiu a fortaleza de Ramá, a fim de poder controlar a estrada de acesso a Judá.18Asa juntou toda a prata e ouro que ficara no templo do SENHOR e no palácio real e entregou tudo aos líderes do seu reino, para levarem a Damasco como presente ao rei de Aram, Ben-Hadade, filho de Tabrimom e neto de Hezion, com esta mensagem:19“Vamos renovar a aliança que existia entre o teu pai e o meu. Mando-te prata e ouro para te convencer a quebrares a aliança com Bacha, rei de Israel, para que me deixe tranquilo.”20Ben-Hadade aceitou a proposta de Asa e mobilizou o seu exército com o fim de atacar Israel. Destruiu Ijom, Dan, Abel-Bete-Maacá, toda a Quinerete e todas as povoações de Naftali.21Ouvindo o que acontecera, Bacha suspendeu os trabalhos que estava a fazer na fortaleza de Ramá e voltou para Tirza.22O rei Asa fez circular em Judá uma proclamação pedindo a todos os homens, sem exceção, que viessem ajudar a deitar abaixo as construções de pedra e madeira. Essas pedras e madeiras foram usadas para construir Geba, em Benjamim, e a cidade de Mizpá.23O resto dos feitos de Asa, as suas conquistas e feitos e os nomes das povoações que mandou construir, estão escritos no Livro das Crónicas dos Reis de Judá. Na sua velhice o rei começou a padecer dos pés.24Quando morreu foi sepultado no cemitério real na Cidade de David. O seu filho Jeosafá tornou-se o novo rei de Judá.
Nadabe rei de Israel
25Entretanto, em Israel, Nadabe, filho de Jeroboão, tornara-se rei. Reinou durante 2 anos, começando a reinar no segundo ano do reinado de Asa, rei de Judá.26Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos do SENHOR. À semelhança do seu pai, adorou muito ídolos e levou Israel a pecar.27Foi então que Bacha, filho de Aías da tribo de Issacar, conspirou contra Nadabe e o assassinou, quando com o exército de Israel estava a sitiar a cidade filisteia de Gibetom.
Bacha rei de Israel
28Assim, Bacha substituiu Nadabe como rei de Israel, em Tirza, durante o terceiro ano do reinado de Asa, rei de Judá.29Imediatamente mandou matar todos os descendentes do rei Jeroboão, não tendo ninguém da família real ficado com vida, tal como o SENHOR dissera que haveria de acontecer, quando falou por intermédio de Aías, o profeta de Silo.30Isto aconteceu porque Jeroboão acendeu a ira do SENHOR, o Deus de Israel, pecando e levando o resto de Israel a pecar.31Outros acontecimentos do reinado de Nadabe estão registados no Livro das Crónicas dos Reis de Israel.32Houve sempre guerra entre o rei Asa de Judá e o rei Bacha de Israel.33No terceiro ano de Asa, rei de Judá, Bacha, filho de Aías, tornou-se rei sobre Israel em Tirza, e reinou durante 24 anos.34Mas todo esse tempo fez o que era mau aos olhos do SENHOR. Seguiu os maus caminhos de Jeroboão, levando Israel a pecar.
1Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. (2 Cr 13:1)2He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.3And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. (1 Rs 8:61; 1 Rs 11:4; 1 Rs 15:14)4Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, (1 Rs 11:36)5because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (2 Sm 11:4; 2 Sm 11:15; 2 Sm 12:9; 1 Rs 9:4; 1 Rs 14:8)6Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. (1 Rs 14:30)7The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. (2 Cr 13:2; 2 Cr 13:22)8And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. (2 Cr 14:1)
Asa Reigns in Judah
9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah,10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.11And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. (2 Cr 14:2)12He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Rs 14:24; 2 Cr 15:8)13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron. (Ex 32:20; 2 Cr 15:16)14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days. (1 Rs 15:3; 1 Rs 22:43; 2 Rs 12:3; 2 Rs 14:4)15And he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. (1 Rs 7:51)16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. (1 Rs 15:32)17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. (1 Rs 12:27; 1 Rs 15:21; 2 Cr 16:1)18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, (1 Rs 11:24; 1 Rs 14:26; 2 Rs 12:18)19“Let there be a covenant[1] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” (2 Cr 16:7)20And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. (Js 11:2; Jz 18:29; 2 Sm 20:14; 2 Rs 15:29)21And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah. (1 Rs 14:17; 1 Rs 15:17; 1 Rs 16:6; 1 Rs 16:9)22Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah. (Js 18:26; Js 21:17)23Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet. (2 Cr 16:11)24And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. (2 Cr 17:1; Mt 1:8)
Nadab Reigns in Israel
25Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. (1 Rs 14:20)26He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin. (1 Rs 12:30; 1 Rs 14:16; 1 Rs 15:30; 1 Rs 15:34)27Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. (Js 19:44; Js 21:23; 1 Rs 14:14; 1 Rs 16:15)28So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place.29And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. (1 Rs 14:10; 1 Rs 14:14)30It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel. (1 Rs 15:26)31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. (1 Rs 15:16)
Baasha Reigns in Israel
33In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.34He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin. (1 Rs 15:26)