1 Kings 15:9

In the four and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa begins to reign over Judah.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 in the twenty-fourth year of Jeroboam; and he is buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Asa his son reigns in his stead.

10And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Ana, daughter of Absalom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:1And he did that which was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

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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