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2 Chronicles 16

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¹ In the thirty-sixth year of Asa, ⓜ Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

² So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying,

³ “There’s a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Israel’s King Baasha so that he will withdraw from me.”

⁴ Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, [1] and all the storage cities [2] of Naphtali.

⁵ When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stopped his work.

⁶ Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then he built Geba and Mizpah with them.

⁷ At that time, the seer Hanani ⓝ came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the LORD your God, ⓐ the army of the king of Aram has escaped from you.

⁸ Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? ⓑ When you depended on the LORD, he handed them over to you. ⓒ

⁹ For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth ⓓ to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him. ⓔ You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”

¹⁰ Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison [3] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

¹¹ Note that the events ⓕ of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

¹² In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD but only the physicians.

¹³ Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

¹⁴ He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; ⓖ then they made a great fire in his honor. ⓗ

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1	In the thirty-sixth year of Asa, ⓜ Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.
2	So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying,
3	“There’s a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Israel’s King Baasha so that he will withdraw from me.”
4	Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, [1] and all the storage cities [2] of Naphtali.
5	When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stopped his work.
6	Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then he built Geba and Mizpah with them.
7	At that time, the seer Hanani ⓝ came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the LORD your God, ⓐ the army of the king of Aram has escaped from you.
8	Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? ⓑ When you depended on the LORD, he handed them over to you. ⓒ
9	For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth ⓓ to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him. ⓔ You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”
10	Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison [3] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.
11	Note that the events ⓕ of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
12	In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD but only the physicians.
13	Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.
14	He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; ⓖ then they made a great fire in his honor. ⓗ

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^{2 Chronicles 16:4 [54]} Also known as Abel Beth Maakah

^{2 Chronicles 16:8 [55]} That is, people from the upper Nile region

^{2 Chronicles 16:8 [56]} Or charioteers

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