1So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.stylus1 Kings 15:8, 1 Kings 15:24, 1 Chronicles 3:10, 1 Kings 14:31, 1 Kings 2:102And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;stylus1 Kings 15:11, 1 Kings 15:11, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 15:14, Luke 1:753For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;stylusDeuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:5, Exodus 34:13, 2 Kings 23:14, Exodus 34:134And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.stylusNehemiah 10:29, Nehemiah 10:39, 1 Samuel 3:13, 2 Chronicles 29:27, Amos 5:45And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.stylus2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Chronicles 34:76He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.stylus2 Chronicles 15:15, 2 Chronicles 15:15, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 2 Chronicles 11:5, 2 Chronicles 11:127He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.stylus1 Peter 3:12, 1 Peter 3:12, 2 Chronicles 14:6, 2 Chronicles 14:6, Jeremiah 29:128And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.stylus2 Chronicles 13:3, 2 Chronicles 13:3, 2 Chronicles 25:5, 2 Chronicles 17:14, 2 Chronicles 17:199And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.stylus2 Chronicles 16:8, 2 Chronicles 16:8, Joshua 15:44, 2 Chronicles 11:8, 2 Chronicles 12:210And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.stylusJudges 1:17, Judges 1:17, Joshua 19:4, Joshua 19:411And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.stylus2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Jeremiah 1:19, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:1012So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.stylus2 Chronicles 13:15, 2 Chronicles 13:15, Deuteronomy 28:7, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 60:1213And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.stylusGenesis 10:19, Genesis 10:19, Genesis 20:1, Genesis 26:1, Genesis 20:114And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.stylus2 Chronicles 17:10, 2 Chronicles 17:10, Genesis 35:5, Genesis 35:5, 2 Chronicles 20:2915And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.stylusNumbers 31:30, Numbers 31:47, 1 Chronicles 4:41, 1 Chronicles 5:21, Numbers 31:9