Melachim I 15 מלכים א ט״ו

In the eighteenth year [of the reign] of King Yerovom ben Nevot, Aviyom became king of Yehudah.

He reigned for three years in Yerushalayim; and his mother’s name was Maachoh, the daughter of Avisholom.

He followed in the sinful ways of his father, that he had done [walked] before him; and his heart was not whole with Adonoy, his God, like the heart of Dovid, his [grand] father.

For it was for Dovid’s sake that Adonoy, his God gave him a lamp in yerushalayim, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Yerushalayim.

Because Dovid had done that which is upright in the eyes of Adonoy; and did not deviate from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except for the matter of Urriyoh, the Chitite.

There was war between Rechavom and Yerovom, all the days of his life.

The rest of the events of Aviyom and all that he did are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yehudah. There was war between Aviyom and Yerovom.

Aviyom slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of Dovid, His son, Asa, reigned in his place.

In the twentieth year [of the reign] of Yerovom, king of Yisroel, Asa reigned as the king of Yehudah.

For forty one years, he reigned in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Maachoh, the daughter of Avisholom.

Asa did what was upright in the eyes of Adonoy as did Dovid, his [grand] father.

And he rid the land of prostitutes, and he removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

And also Maachoh, his mother, he removed from her position of authority, for she had made a fearful image for an Asheira, and Asa cut down her Mifletses and burned it the Valley of Kidron.

[However] the [private] altars, he did not remove but Asa’s heart was whole with Adonoy all his days.

He brought his father’s sacred things , and his own sacred items to the House of Adonoy, [consisting of] silver, gold and vessels.

There was war between Asa and between Bashah, king of Yisroel all their days.

Bashah, king of Yisroel went up against Yehudah, and he built a high tower, to prevent anyone from going out or from coming in to Asa, king of Yehudah.

And Asa took all the silver and gold, that remained in the treasuries of the House of Adonoy, and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hands of his servants. And king Asa sent them [his servants] to Ben Haddad, the son of Tavrimon, the son Chezyon, king of Arom, who lived in Damascus, saying,

“There is a covenant between me and you, between my father and between your father. Behold, I have sent you a bribe of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Bashah, king of Yisroel, so that he will have to depart from me.”

And Ben Haddad listened to king Asa, and sent the officers of his armies against the cities of Yisroel and struck Eyon, Don, and Aveil-Beis Maacho, and all of the areas around Kineres together with all the land of Naftali.

And when Bashah heard he stopped building the tower, and he lived in Tirtsah.

King Asa issued a proclamation to all Yehuda, “There will be no exceptions.” They carried away the stones of the tower and its timber with which Bashah had built it, and with this material, king Asa built the Hill of Binyomin and Mitzpah.

All the rest of the events of Asa, and all his might[y deeds], and all that he accomplished and the cities that he built, are indeed recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yehudah. However, in his old age, he developed a sickness of his feet.

And Asa slept with his fathers and he was buried with his fathers in the city of Dovid, his [grand] father. Yehoshofat, his son, reigned in his place.

Nodov, the son of Yerovom, became king of Yisroel in the second year of Asa, king of Yehudah, and he reigned over Yisroel for two years.

He did what was evil in the eyes of Adonoy, and followed the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Yisroel to sin.

Bashah the son of Achiyoh, plotted against him, he was of the house of Yissocher, and Bashah struck him at Givson, which belonged to the Pelishtim, when Nadov and all Yisroel were beseiging Givson.

And Bashah killed him in the third year [of the reign] of Asa, king of Yehudah, and he [Bashah] ruled in his place.

When he became king, he struck the whole house of Yerovom. He did not spare a single soul of Yerovom, until he destroyed it utterly; as was the word of Adonoy that He spoke through the hand of His servant, aciuyoh haShiloni.

For the sins of Yerovom that he sinned and caused Yisroel to sin; with his deeds of anger by which he angered Adonoy, God of Yisroel.

The rest of the deeds of Nodov and all that he did, are indeed recorded in the Book of chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

There was war between Asa and between Bashah, king of Yisroel all their days.

It was during the third year of Asa, king of Yehudah, that Bashah son of Achiyoh, became king over all Yisroel in Tirtzah. [He reigned] for twenty four years.

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of Adonoy, and he followed in the way of Yerovom, and in his sins that he caused Yisroel to sin.