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Asa

Mentioned in 53 verses across 5 books, first in 1 Kings 15:8. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

All 24 verses in 1 Kings, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Kings

  • 1 Kings 15:8

    And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kings 15:9

    In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

  • 1 Kings 15:11

    And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

  • 1 Kings 15:13

    He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

  • 1 Kings 15:14

    The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

  • 1 Kings 15:16

    Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

  • 1 Kings 15:17

    Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

  • 1 Kings 15:18

    So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

  • 1 Kings 15:20

    And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

  • 1 Kings 15:22

    Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.

  • 1 Kings 15:23

    Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.

  • 1 Kings 15:24

    And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kings 15:25

    In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years.

  • 1 Kings 15:28

    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kings 15:32

    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

  • 1 Kings 15:33

    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

  • 1 Kings 16:8

    In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.

  • 1 Kings 16:10

    So in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri went in, struck Elah down, and killed him. And Zimri reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kings 16:15

    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,

  • 1 Kings 16:23

    In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 16:29

    In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.

  • 1 Kings 22:41

    In the fourth year of Ahab’s reign over Israel, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah.

  • 1 Kings 22:43

    And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  • 1 Kings 22:46

    He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

Events

Events the dataset lists Asa as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 956 BC
    Reign of Asa1 Kings 15:9–24 · at Jerusalem
  2. c. 914 BC
    Death of Asa1 Kings 15:24 · at Jerusalem

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings 15:8-14). The Lord gave him and his land rest and prosperity. It is recorded of him, however, that in his old age, when afflicted, he “sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians” (comp. Jer. 17:5). He died in the forty-first year of his reign, greatly honoured by his people (2 Chr. 16:1-13), and was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat.

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