2 Chronicles 16
Asa Wars against Baasha
1In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign aBaasha king of Israel came up against Judah and ▼▼ Lit built
fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. 2Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, 3“Let there be a treaty between ▼▼ Lit me and you
you and me, as between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.” 4So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they ▼▼ Lit smote
conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim and all ethe ▼▼ Lit storage places of the cities
store cities of Naphtali. 5When Baasha heard of it, he ceased ▼▼ Lit building
fortifying Ramah and stopped his work. 6Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he ▼▼ Lit built
fortified Geba and Mizpah. Asa Imprisons the Prophet
7At that time iHanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, j“Because you have relied on the king of Aram and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand. 8“Were not kthe Ethiopians and the Lubim lan immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet mbecause you relied on the Lord, He delivered them into your hand. 9“For nthe eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those owhose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.” 10Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in ▼▼ Lit the house of the stocks
prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. 11 qNow, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he rdid not seek the Lord, but the physicians. 13So Asa slept with his fathers, ▼▼ Lit and
having died in the forty-first year of his reign. 14They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled twith spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and uthey made a very great fire for him.
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