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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Kings 15
³ He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
⁴ But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;
⁵ because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
⁶ There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
⁷ Now the 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.
⁸ And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place.
⁹ So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah.
¹⁰ He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
¹¹ Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.
¹² He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
¹³ He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.