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Ancestors of Christ - Asa consoling his father

1511: Cappella Sistina, Vatican

Asa was a king of Judah, who ascended the throne in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel. He was the son of Abiham and grandson of Rehoboam. His mother (actually his grandmother) was Maacah, daughter of Absalom (1 Kings 15: 9-10). His reign began with 10 years of peace (2 Chron. 14: 1). He took away the male prostitutes out of the land, abolished the idols of his predecessors, and removed his grandmother from her position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah (1 Kings 15: 9-13; 11 Chron. 14: 1-5; 15: 16). He also destroyed the strange altars, the high places, and the sun images throughout Judah (2 Chron. 14: 3-5) as fully as he as able; but, though his own heart was perfect with Jehovah, the people still occasionally sacrificed to Jehovah on high places (1 Kings 15: 14; 2 Chron. 15: 17). The Ethiopian Zerah, at the head of an enormous host of Africans invaded his kingdom, but by the help of Jehovah he defeated them, and drove them from the land (2 Chron. 14: 9-15). In the 15th year of his reign, encouraged by the Prophet Azariah, he completed the religious reformation, restored the altar of burnt offering at the Temple, and induced the people to renew the covenant with Jehovah (2 Chron. 15: 1-15). During his reign, Baasha, king of Israel, invaded Benjamin and fortified Ramah on the main road from Jerusalem to the north. Asa, finding himself too weak to capture Ramah and reopen the road, took the Temple treasures and hired Ben-hadad, king of Damascus, to attack Baasha. Ben-hadad invaded the northern portion of the Israelite kingdom, compelling Baasha to withdraw from Ramah. Asa took the building materials that Baasha had gathered at Ramah and fortified Geba and Mizpah. The Prophet Hanani reproved the king for his worldly policy, after his experience of God’s help at the time of the Ethiopian invasion. Asa resented the interference of the prophet and put him in prison (1 Kings 15: 16-22; 2 Chron. 16: 12). Later in his reign he became diseased in his feet. In his distress he sought help from the physicians, but not from Jehovah (1 Kings 15: 23; 2 Chron. 16: 12). In his later days he was not so true to Jehovah as in his earlier life. He died in the 41st year of his reign, and was buried with royal honours in a sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David.
 
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