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And so far concerning Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon,
as his history hath come down to us. But Jeroboam, the king of the ten
tribes, died when he had governed them two and twenty years; whose son
Nadab succeeded him, in the second year of the reign of Asa. Now Jeroboam's
son governed two years, and resembled his father in impiety and wickedness.
In these two years he made an expedition against Gibbethon, a city of the
Philistines, and continued the siege in order to take it; but he was conspired
against while he was there by a friend of his, whose name was Baasha, the
son of Ahijah, and was slain; which Baasha took the kingdom after the other's
death, and destroyed the whole house of Jeroboam. It also came to pass,
according as God had foretold, that some of Jeroboam's kindred that died
in the city were torn to pieces and devoured by dogs, and that others of
them that died in the fields were torn and devoured by the fowls. So the
house of Jeroboam suffered the just punishment of his impiety, and of his
wicked actions.
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1 HOW ZERAH, KING OF THE ETHIOPIANS, WAS BEATEN BY ASA; AND HOW ASA, UPON BAASHA'S MAKING WAR AGAINST HIM, INVITED THE KING OF THE DAMASCENS TO ASSIST HIM; AND HOW, ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE OF BAASHA ZIMRI GOT THE KINGDOM AS DID HIS SON AHAB AFTER HIM.
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