1 Kings 15:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

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  • Josh 21:17 : 17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
  • Josh 18:24 : 24 And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
  • Josh 18:26 : 26 And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah
  • 1 Sam 7:5 : 5 Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you.
  • 2 Chr 16:6 : 6 Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.
  • Jer 40:6 : 6 So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah, and was living with him among the people who were still in the land.
  • Jer 40:10 : 10 As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.

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  • 2 Chr 16:4-7
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    4And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

    5Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

    6Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

    7At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11-21
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    11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

    12Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

    13And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

    14The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    15He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    16Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    17And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

    18Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

    19Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

    20So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.

    21And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

  • 2 Chr 16:1-2
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    1In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

    2Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 15:23-24
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    23Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

    24So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 15:8-10
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    8And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

    9And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

    10So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
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    2He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 15:15-19
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    15And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

    16And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    18He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    19And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

  • 1 Kgs 15:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.

    9In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 16:10-11
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    10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

    11Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:32-33
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    32And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    33In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.

  • 1 Kgs 15:27-28
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    27And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

    28In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
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    2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

    3For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Chr 14:7-8
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    7He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

    8And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

  • 2 Chr 14:10
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    10And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
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    46He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 2 Chr 15:2
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    2And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
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    15Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 2 Chr 33:14
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    14After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 16:15
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    15In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.