1 Kings 15:9

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

In Context

8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

10And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:1(13-23) So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead; in his days the land was quiet ten years.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 15:2-9

Abijam's Reign. ( b. c. 958.) 1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish… Read the whole commentary →

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