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2 Chronicles chapter 16

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel marched against Judah and Ramah to anyone from going to or coming from Asa king of Judah.So Asa took silver and gold from the and the royal palace and sent them to Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus. He said,“There’s a between me and you, just as there was between my father and your father. Look — I’m sending you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he’ll pull back from me.”Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent his army commanders against the towns of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim, and all the of Naphtali.When Baasha heard about it, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his project.Then King Asa brought all of Judah, and they hauled away the stones and timber Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. With those materials he fortified .At that time Hanani the came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you on the king of Aram instead of relying on Yahweh your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your grasp.Weren’t the and Libyans a massive army with huge numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you relied on Yahweh, he to you.For Yahweh’s eyes the whole earth to strengthen those whose hearts are to him. You’ve in this. From now on, you’ll be at war.”Asa was at the seer and threw him in — he was enraged over this. Asa also some of the people at the same time.The events of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the .In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a severe disease in his feet. Even in his illness, he didn’t Yahweh but only for .Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign.They buried him in the for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bed filled with . And they lit a in his honor.