1 Reyes 15
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Abías de Judá (914-911) (2 Cr 13,1-2.22-23)
15 Abías comenzó a reinar en Judá en el año décimo octavo del reinado de Jeroboán, hijo de Nabat. 2 Reinó en Jerusalén durante tres años. Su madre se llamaba Maacá y era hija de Absalón. 3 Cometió los mismos pecados que había cometido su padre, antes que él, y no fue enteramente fiel al Señor, su Dios, como lo había sido su antepasado David. 4 En consideración a David, el Señor, su Dios, le mantuvo una lámpara encendida en Jerusalén, concediéndole un sucesor y manteniendo a Jerusalén. 5 Pues David había actuado correctamente ante el Señor, sin desviarse de sus preceptos en toda su vida, salvo en el asunto de Urías, el hitita. 6 Roboán y Jeroboán estuvieron siempre en guerra. 7 El resto de la historia de Abías y todo cuanto hizo está escrito en el libro de los Anales de los Reyes de Judá; entre Abías y Jeroboán hubo una permanente hostilidad. 8 Cuando murió Abías, fue enterrado en la ciudad de David y su hijo Asá le sucedió como rey.
Asá de Judá (911-870) (2 Cr 14,1; 15,16-18; 16,1-6.11.14)
9 El rey Asá comenzó a reinar en Judá en el año vigésimo del reinado de Jeroboán de Israel. 10 Reinó en Jerusalén durante cuarenta y un años. Su abuela se llamaba Maacá y era hija de Absalón. 11 Asá agradó al Señor con su conducta, como su antepasado David. 12 Abolió la prostitución sagrada en el país y retiró todos los ídolos fabricados por sus antepasados. 13 Incluso destituyó de su título real a su abuela Maacá por haber dedicado una imagen abominable a Astarté; Asá destruyó la imagen y la quemó en el torrente Cedrón. 14 No desaparecieron los santuarios locales de los montes, pero Asá fue totalmente fiel al Señor durante toda su vida. 15 Llevó al Templo del Señor las ofrendas de su padre y las suyas propias: oro, plata y otros objetos.
16 Asá y Basá, el rey de Israel, estuvieron permanentemente en guerra. 17 Basá, el rey de Israel, atacó a Judá y fortificó Ramá, para cortar las comunicaciones a Asá, el rey de Judá. 18 Asá tomó todo el oro y la plata que quedaban en los tesoros del Templo del Señor y del palacio real y se los envió por medio de sus servidores a Benadad, hijo de Tabrimón y nieto de Jezyón, rey de Aram, que residía en Damasco, con este mensaje:
19 — Hagamos un pacto tú y yo, como lo hicieron nuestros padres. Te envío plata y oro como regalo. Rompe tu pacto con Basá, para que deje de atacarme.
20 Benadad aceptó la propuesta del rey Asá y envió a los jefes de sus ejércitos contra las ciudades de Israel, que atacaron Iyón, Dan, Abel Bet Maacá y todo la región de Kinéret hasta el territorio de Neftalí. 21 Cuando se enteró Basá, dejó de fortificar Ramá y regresó a Tirsá. 22 Entonces el rey Asá convocó a todo Judá, sin excepción, se llevaron de Ramá las piedras y la madera que Basá había empleado para fortificarla y con ellas fortificó Guibeá de Benjamín y Mispá.
23 El resto de la historia de Asá, todas sus hazañas y gestas y las ciudades que fortificó, está escrito en el libro de los Anales de los Reyes de Judá. En su vejez, Asá enfermó de gota. 24 Cuando Asá murió, fue enterrado con sus antepasados en la ciudad de David, y su hijo Josafat le sucedió como rey.
Nadab de Israel (910-909)
25 Nadab, hijo de Jeroboán, empezó a reinar en Israel en el segundo año del reinado de Asá en Judá y reinó sobre Israel durante dos años. 26 Nadab ofendió al Señor, siguió los pasos de su padre e imitó los pecados que este hizo cometer a Israel.
27 Basá, hijo de Ajías, de la tribu de Isacar, se sublevó contra él y lo mató en Guibetón, ciudad filistea que Nadab estaba sitiando con todos los israelitas. 28 Basá lo mató en el año tercero del reinado de Asá de Judá y lo suplantó como rey. 29 Cuando subió al trono mató a toda la familia de Jeroboán, hasta exterminarla completamente, tal y como el Señor había anunciado por medio de su siervo Ajías, el de Siló, 30 a causa de los pecados que Jeroboán cometió e hizo cometer a Israel, provocando con ellos la ira del Señor, Dios de Israel.
31 El resto de la historia de Nadab y todo lo que hizo está escrito en el libro de los Anales de los Reyes de Israel. 32 Asá y Basá, rey de Israel, estuvieron permanentemente en guerra.
Basá de Israel (909-885)
33 Basá, hijo de Ajías, comenzó a reinar sobre Israel en Tirsá el tercer año del reinado de Asá en Judá y reinó durante veinticuatro años. 34 Basá ofendió al Señor, siguió los pasos de Jeroboán e imitó los pecados que hizo este cometer a Israel.
1 Kings 15
Living Bible
15 1-2 Abijam began his three-year reign as king of Judah in Jerusalem during the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. (Abijam’s mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.) 3 He was as great a sinner as his father was, and his heart was not right with God, as King David’s was. 4 But despite Abijam’s sin, the Lord remembered David’s love[a] and did not end the line of David’s royal descendants. 5 For David had obeyed God during his entire life except for the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite. 6 During Abijam’s reign there was constant war between Israel and Judah.[b] 7 The rest of Abijam’s history is recorded in The Annals of the Kings of Judah. 8 When he died he was buried in Jerusalem, and his son Asa reigned in his place.
9 Asa became king of Judah, in Jerusalem, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jeroboam over Israel, 10 and reigned forty-one years. (His grandmother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.) 11 He pleased the Lord like his ancestor King David. 12 He executed the male prostitutes and removed all the idols his father had made. 13 He deposed his grandmother Maacah as queen mother because she had made an idol—which he cut down and burned at Kidron Brook. 14 However, the shrines on the hills were not removed, for Asa did not realize that these were wrong.[c] 15 He made permanent exhibits in the Temple of the bronze shields his grandfather had dedicated,[d] along with the silver and gold vessels he himself had donated.
16 There was lifelong war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. 17 King Baasha built the fortress city of Ramah in an attempt to cut off all trade with Jerusalem. 18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the Temple treasury and all the treasures of the palace, and gave them to his officials to take to Damascus, to King Ben-hadad of Syria, with this message:
19 “Let us be allies just as our fathers were. I am sending you a present of gold and silver. Now break your alliance with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”
20 Ben-hadad agreed and sent his armies against some of the cities of Israel; and he destroyed Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all of Chinneroth, and all the cities in the land of Naphtali. 21 When Baasha received word of the attack, he discontinued building the city of Ramah and returned to Tirzah. 22 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, asking every able-bodied man to help demolish Ramah and haul away its stones and timbers. And King Asa used these materials to build the city of Geba in Benjamin and the city of Mizpah.
23 The rest of Asa’s biography—his conquests and deeds and the names of the cities he built—is found in The Annals of the Kings of Judah. In his old age his feet became diseased, 24 and when he died, he was buried in the royal cemetery in Jerusalem. Then his son Jehoshaphat became the new king of Judah.
25 Meanwhile over in Israel, Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, had become king. He reigned two years, beginning in the second year of the reign of King Asa of Judah. 26 But he was not a good king; like his father, he worshiped many idols and led all of Israel into sin.
27 Then Baasha (the son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar) plotted against him and assassinated him while he was with the Israeli army laying siege to the Philistine city of Gibbethon. 28 So Baasha replaced Nadab as the king of Israel in Tirzah during the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah. 29 He immediately killed all of the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the Lord had said would happen when he spoke through Ahijah, the prophet from Shiloh. 30 This was done because Jeroboam had angered the Lord God of Israel by sinning and leading the rest of Israel into sin.
31 Further details of Baasha’s reign are recorded in The Annals of the Kings of Israel.
32-33 There was continuous warfare between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. Baasha reigned for twenty-four years, 34 but all that time he continually disobeyed the Lord. He followed the evil paths of Jeroboam, for he led the people of Israel into the sin of worshiping idols.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 15:4 the Lord remembered David’s love, literally, “for David’s sake.”
- 1 Kings 15:6 between Israel and Judah, literally, “between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.”
- 1 Kings 15:14 Asa did not realize that these were wrong, literally, “the heart of Asa was perfect toward Jehovah all his days.”
- 1 Kings 15:15 the bronze shields his grandfather had dedicated, literally, “the dedicated objects of his grandfather,” see 14:27.
1 Kings 15
King James Version
15 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 Jerusalem:
5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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