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2 Chronicles 16

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Asa’s Last Years
1 # For ver. 1-6, see 1 Kgs. 15:17-22 In the #[1 Kgs. 16:8] thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, #[ch. 15:9]that he might permit no one to go out or come 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“There is a covenant#16:3 Or treaty; twice in this verse between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to 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 #[Ex. 1:11]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 #ch. 19:2; 1 Kgs. 16:1 Hanani #See 1 Sam. 9:9 the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, #[Isa. 31:1; Jer. 17:5]“Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. 8Were not #ch. 14:9 the Ethiopians and #ch. 12:3 the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet #[ch. 13:16, 18]because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand. 9#Zech. 4:10; [Prov. 15:3] For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those #[1 Kgs. 8:61] whose heart is blameless#16:9 Or whole toward him. #1 Sam. 13:13 You have done foolishly in this, for from now on #1 Kgs. 15:16, 32you will have wars.” 10Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him #[ch. 18:26]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.
11 # For ver. 11-14, see 1 Kgs. 15:23, 24 The 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 the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier #[Gen. 50:2; Mark 16:1; John 19:39, 40] that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, #[ch. 21:19; Jer. 34:5]and they made a very great fire in his honor.

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