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2 Chronicles

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Chapter 16

¹In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. ²Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, ³“Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” ⁴And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali. ⁵And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease. ⁶Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah. ⁷At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand. ⁸Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand. ⁹For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have acted foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.” ¹⁰Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time. ¹¹The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. ¹²In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians. ¹³And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign. ¹⁴They buried him in his own tomb, which he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with spices and various kinds of aromatic ointments prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.