Asa, King of Judah - Kings of Israel and Judah

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Kings of Israel & Judah

Asa

King of Judah · 955–914 BC

See him on the kings chart · On the timeline

His Reign

Reigned: forty and one years 1 Kings 15:10
Began: in Jeroboam’s 20th year 1 Kings 15:9
His Mother: Maachah 1 Kings 15:10
Before Him: Abijam
After Him: Jehoshaphat

In the Sight of the LORD

“Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD” 1 Kings 15:11

Ussher’s Years

Reigned 955–914 BC: “Asa, in the very end of the 20 year of Jeroboams reign”

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.

In Israel in His Day

Jeroboam King of Israel · 975–954 BC
Nadab King of Israel · 954–953 BC
Baasha King of Israel · 953–930 BC
Elah King of Israel · 930–929 BC
Zimri King of Israel · 929 BC
Tibni Rival King of Israel · 929–925 BC
Omri King of Israel · 929–918 BC
Ahab King of Israel · 918–897 BC

Where His Reign Is Told

Difficult Passages

How did Baasha come up against Asa ten years after he died?

The thirty-sixth year is of Asa’s kingdom, the kingdom of Judah, counted from its division from Israel: Asa’s own sixteenth year, the year after Israelites fell to him in abundance.